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Sritama Chakraborty

Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology

“The ideal electrode is all about balancing stability and performance. Manipulation of carbon electrodes at the nano- and micro-structural level is crucial to understand and eventually achieve that balance for redox flow batteries.”

Deva Priya Sasikumar

Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology

“Redefining carbon electrode design by uniting microwave assisted carbonization with plasma enables surface modification to unlock smarter, high performance, energy efficient and more sustainable solution for next generation energy storage.”

Sol Montero

Chalmers University

“By modelling electrode microstructure at the pore scale, the pathways linking transport, reaction, and efficiency in redox flow batteries come into view.”

Lukas Troyer

Elestor

Bronston Benetho

Pinflow energy storage

“The faster you can test an idea, the faster you can improve it. Building the tools to screen and understand new electrode materials quickly, using those findings to optimize the design, and ultimately proving it works in a real battery system, allows for quicker innovation."

Salar Salmanipour

Eindhoven University of Technology

“Precision stereolithography of porous electrodes provides a powerful platform to engineer tunable architectures that optimize the relationship between structure, mass transport, and electrochemical performance, paving the way toward efficient, durable, and...”

Theodora Kouvarati

Unviersity of Chemistry and Technology Prague

“An understanding of how structure governs reactivity is the key to optimizing energy storage systems from the microscale up. To make energy storage sustainable, we must design electrodes that are reactive as well as resilient.”

Akshay S. Sundar

University of Innsbruck

“Strategic development of advanced electrode architectures for redox flow batteries, enabled by textile-based fabrication techniques, can pave the way toward more sustainable, efficient, and durable energy storage solutions.”

Gulustan Heydarova

University of Padua

"Engineering sustainable energy storage begins with understanding how matter, flow, and electrochemical reactions interact across scales. By combining multiphysics modelling with advanced electrode design, we can develop smarter and more...”

Lennart Anderson

University of Padua

"Imagine the electrode treatment as transforming flat land into mountainous terrain: for the same floor area, the surface area increases dramatically, and therefore the reaction sites. Navigating through a high dimensional parameter space is a challenging task. By inves..."

Hagos Yohannes Gebremedihin

University of Stuttgart

“Condensing traditionally massive, benchtop EPR instrumentation into a compact, VCO-driven integrated architecture does not only break the physical boundaries of conventional sensing electronics by enabling electrically large coil layouts, but also unlocks...”

Marc Arvie Talavera

University of Brno

“Exploiting the potential of rapid-scan EPR spectroscopy to investigate vanadium kinetics with porous electrodes does not only open new doors to a more time-resolved kinetics study of other radicals, but also advances ongoing RFB research to provide reliable and long-duration..."

Max Wessman

Technical University of Denmark

“The path to better energy storage begins inside the complex porous structure of battery electrodes. By combining advanced electrochemical diagnostics with modelling, this work aims to reveal how transport and reaction processes shape performance, helping...”

Anshuman Gupta

University of Bayreuth

“Engineering core–shell fibre electrodes with controlled porosity is key to unlocking efficient and durable redox flow battery systems."

Blessing Nansubuga

Chalmers University

"By simulating fluid flow and thermodynamics within electrodes, we identify the optimal parameters for improving thermal management, efficiency, and peak performance in redox flow batteries."

Lorenzo Guerra

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

"Mathematical models are not mere approximations of reality, but bridges between what can be observed and what can be understood. Approaching redox flow batteries from this perspective is crucial for moving towards a more sustainable future in energy storage."

Elena Tagliabue

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

“The integration of physics-based modelling, electrochemical measurements, and spectroscopic characterisation provides a powerful framework for developing predictive descriptions of electrochemical systems and improving the understanding of interfacial...”