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SONAR will present a first functional demonstrator for the simulation-based screening of organic active materials for novel redox flow batteries
This year SONAR will share a booth with the German-Australian Alliance for Electrochemical Storage for Renewable Energy (CENELEST) at Smart Energy 2022 in Sydney, Australia. For the first time, a functional demonstrator will be presented for the high-throughput screening method…
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Happy New Year 2022!
I wish everyone a good start into the new year 2022, good health and much success!
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MDPI Batteries highlighted our paper on vanadium electrolyte
MDPI Batteries highlighted our paper on vanadium electrolytes for vanadium redox flow batteries. See the original tweed here:
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SONAR Newsletter
We are happy to present the second edition of our biannual newsletter, where we review the first half of the project and present our activities concerning the higher scales, such as a microCT scan of a graphite felt, our approach…
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Alan Kohler About the Tragedy of Australian Manufacturing
Alan Kohler is discussing the tragedy of Australian Manufacturing and mentioning Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, regarding vanadium redox flow batteries in Australia. You can read the full article here: https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/12/09/manufacturing-australia-alan-kohler/
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The biggest Battery in the world
This Twitter thread gives you some information and pictures about the Dalian 200 MW / 800 MWh Rongke Power Vanadium Redox Flow Battery.
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Flow battery systems and their future in stationary energy storage – Policy brief
On 9th July 2021, at the Summer Symposium of the International Flow Battery Forum, the FLORES Network of Flow-Battery Research Initiatives held a workshop to identify researchneeds, barriers, potential markets and impacts of flow batteries. The outcomes, including resulting policy…
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Interview for IEEE Spectrum
Jens had an interview for IEEE Spectrum regarding questions about the technology of the Australian start-up GELION. GELION wants to commercialise zinc/bromine batteries without pumped electrolyte, i.e. not a flow battery. Jens was asked about the advantages and disadvantages of…
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Talk at the 2021 Conference of Recent Advances and Innovations in Solar Energy
Jens will give a talk about Flow Batteries at the 2021 Conference of Recent Advances and Innovations in Solar Energy. The conference flyer can be downloaded here.
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Talk at the Nordic Flow Battery Network Autumn School 2021
Jens will give a talk at the Nordic Flow Battery Network Autumn School at November 24th-26th 2021 at the University of Turku in Finland. You can download the flyer here.