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Webinar: From Project to Platform: New Resources on PSDI – Session 2

Webinar: From Project to Platform: New Resources on PSDI – Session 2

Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uCSiENnvQpCUjLNERzvDFg

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.  

Session 2

Engaging the flow battery community to raise electrochemical testing standards

Josh Bailey

Abstract

Challenge
    • Growing concerns about a broader reproducibility crisis in electrochemistry, particularly within the flow battery research community
    • A lack of standardised experimental practices and 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 with MIT
    • Systematic investigation of repeatability, replicability, reproducibility in flow battery cell testing
    • Phase 1
      • Identical flow battery test cell kits distributed to 8 institutions
      • Nominally identical electrochemical measurements performed
    • Phase 2 (ongoing)
      • Community‑scale expansion to 41 researchers from 33 institutions
      • Phase 2a: reproducibility using participants’ own cells
      • Phase 2b: large‑scale replicability using updated standardised kits
Innovation
    • Combination of community‑scale participation, harmonised protocols, and shared nomenclature
    • 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 ofelectrochemical devices. He co-leads international activities aiming to measure and improve reproducibility in flow battery testing, whilst designing new materials and protocols.

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