Lessons from a community effort to fix flow battery testing

Have you ever tried to reproduce what you’ve read in the energy storage literature? Ever tried to test an electrochemical cell and not been able to replicate the results? Well, you’re not alone. 

Over the past two years, my colleagues and I at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), UK, along with fellow researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, have brought together a community of flow battery researchers who have repeatedly faced this exact problem. And they each want to play a role in fixing it.