Open-Source Flow Battery Community
We will be presenting at FOSDEM 2026 and hope to see you there! Kirk and Daniel will be presenting at 12:30 on Saturday, January 31 in the Energy track in room AW1.126 . Full details here , including the link to the livestream (talk should also be recorded and watchable later). The title of the talk is “Scaling up open-source batteries: what’s worth pursuing?”. Here is the abstract: Storing energy…
It has been several months since our last update and we thank you for your patience! If you’ve checked out the forum you’ll know there’s been plenty of activity. Be sure to make an account there to receive the latest updates! Development kit stable and certified by OSHWA The development kit is now stable, and multiple people are in the process of reproducing our system on the forum . We recieved…
Time for some updates on our progress since our last post! Development kit We have finished the initial version of the flow cell that we used at the workshop last April (which we are calling version zero) including documentation . This has been marked as release v0.0.2 (we are learning how to version hardware using Git, see below re. contribution guidelines!). It is a minimal working example,…
Roadmap We are back with an update on how we plan to progress! Here is our development plan for the cell and stack hardware: Benchtop development kit, cell area 1-10 cm², target release end of 2024 Purpose is testing materials and electrolytes on a small scale: different graphite felts, separators, formulations, etc. Purpose is not storing energy on a practical scale. Measure intrinsic properties:…
We are very excited to announce that we’ve received funding from NLnet foundation NGI0 Entrust Fund, a nonprofit organization which supports the open internet and associated open-source software and hardware projects. https://nlnet.nl/project/RedoxFlowBattery/ Our project blurb on their website: The clean energy transition is underway, and batteries are becoming more common in everyday life.…
On April 9, the Flow Battery Research Collective attended the Flow4U flow battery conference at Eindhoven University at the invitation of Prof Sanli Faez of Utrecht University and the FAIR Battery project. We gave a presentation on our project which you can see below: The presentation was uploaded to ECSarxiv and given a DOI here . The presentation was immediately followed by a hands-on workshop…
Hello, world! We are two scientists passionate about developing affordable, sustainable batteries for clean energy storage. We met online while independently researching low-cost flow battery storage technologies, started sharing resources, and quickly created the Flow Battery Research Collective to give a name to our efforts and try to share our work and bring others into the fold. This website…