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Webinar: From Project to Platform: New Resources on PSDI – Session 3

Webinar: From Project to Platform: New Resources on PSDI – Session 3

PSDI is pleased to launch a new webinar series entitled “From Project to Platform: New Resources on PSDI”. This series aims to showcase the high-quality tools and resources developed through the funding call 2025, introduce them to a broader community, and foster engagement with relevant user groups.  

The recording of this webinar is now available on YouTube

Abstract

Challenge
    • Growing concerns of a reproducibility crisis in electrochemical devices, particularly within the flow battery research community
    • A lack of standardised experimental practices and few consistent reporting frameworks
    • Limited reliability and comparability of reported results across laboratories
    • Inter‑lab differences are difficult to interpret, slowing collective progress and best‑practice development
Approach
    • Since 2023, multi‑institutional round‑robin studies co‑led by QUB and MIT
    • Systematic investigation of repeatability, replicability, reproducibility in flow battery cell testing
    • Phase 1 (complete)
      • Identical flow battery test cell kits distributed to 11 researchers from 7 institutions
      • Nominally identical electrochemical measurements performed
    • Phase 2 (on-going)
      • Community‑scale expansion to over 40 researchers from 35 institutions
      • Phase 2a: reproducibility using participants’ own cells
      • Phase 2b: large‑scale replicability study using updated standardised kits
Innovation
    • Combination of community‑scale participation, shared nomenclature, and affordable 3D-printed cells
    • Development of a PSDI‑supported data infrastructure for:
      • cross‑institutional data collection
      • interactive visualisation
      • comparative analysis at scale
    • Enables identification of systematic trends across laboratories
    • Establishes a pathway toward transparent, comparable, and reproducible testing standards for single‑cell flow batteries
Phase 1: Replicability Study Timeline
Phase 2: Community‑Scale Participation

Bio

Josh J. Bailey is an Illuminate Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, working at the interface of physical experimentation and computational modelling to improve performance, durability, and sustainability of electrochemical devices. He co-leads international activities aiming to measure and improve reproducibility in flow battery testing, whilst designing new materials and protocols.

Watch the recording

You can watch the recording of this webinar via our YouTube channel.
Slides are available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/21700990

The PSDI team looks forward to seeing you at the webinar, if you have any questions you can always get in contact with us.

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