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Invitated talk at AMN10 in Rotorua
On Feb 8th 2023 I gave an invited talk about the results of the EU-Australian project SONAR at the 10th Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology in Rotorua / New Zealand.
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SONAR General Assembly Meeting in Winterthur
On February 1st was our second last General Assembly Meeting in hybrid format in Wintherthur / Switzerland at the ZHAW. sonar-redox.eu
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History of Flow Batteries
With the publication of WILEY-VCH “Flow Batteries”, an article by myself, Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, Larry Thaller, Gerd Tomazic, Bjorn Jonshagen and Patrik Morrissey was published on the topic “History of Flow Batteries”.The article is available separately here: https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527832767.ch2Or, of course, in…
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Participation in AMN10
Jens will present an invited talk on the results from the collaborative SONAR project at the 10th International Conference on Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology in Rotorua, New Zealand from February 7-10, 2023. https://confer.eventsair.com/amn10/
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WILEY-VCH Flow Batteries has been released today!
Today is finally the day. After two years of work, WILEY-VCH Flow Batteries has been published in three volumes and with over 1200 pages in hardcover and digital version. The book can be ordered directly from WILEY https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527832767 or from…
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Visit of Lab for Battery Research and Innovation
I visited today Dr. Depan Kundu’s Lab for Battery Research and Innovation at UNSW. We discussed research on sodium ion and solid state batteries.
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Talk at the TU-Dresden 6th Autumn Workshop on Energy Storage
I gave an invited talk on the current state of redox flow batteries at the 6th Autumn Workshop on Energy Storage at TU-Dresden on November 30. You can download the full presentation here: Jens Noack – Status and perspectives of…
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Setting up a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) experiment for teaching at UNSW
This is what a vanadium redox flow battery looks like for teaching purposes. We use a very diluted vanadium solution here, on the one hand to make the four color transitions visible and on the other hand to keep the…
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Setting up a Fe/Fe RFB for teaching purposes at UNSW.
Here is an iron/iron redox flow battery set up for educational purposes. A Fe/Fe-RFB uses a green Fe(II) salt solution as the initial solution in the discharged state, whereby the solution is only slightly acidic. During the charging process, more…
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Talks about collaborations at the University of Technology Sydney
Today I met with the Dean of International Cooperation at UTS to discuss possible joint activities in collaboration with Fraunhofer and the University of New South Wales. We will undertake further reciprocal visits in the future and expand our joint…