A New Test System for High Throughput Redox Flow R&D

What started as an internal tool has evolved into a potential game-changer for the entire redox flow battery (RFB) community.

When we couldn’t find a flow battery test system that met the needs of our R&D team — compact, affordable, reproducible — we decided to build our own. The result is the Redoxino™ Mini Flow Cell Test System, a small-footprint, low-cost test system designed to enable high throughput testing for redox flow batteries.

Traditional flow battery test setups often cost as much as USD $25,000 when you factor in all the hardware. They also have a significant space footprint, taking up one to two square meters of lab space.

The cost and space requirements can mean huge hurdles in developing the next innovation – especially in evaluating redox flow cell performance under different operating conditions at once. Parallel tests require significant space and budget allocations, which even large organizations don’t always have.

For our own work at BioZen, we experienced these hurdles in our own R&D – and saw that we needed something different. That’s why we developed the Redoxino™ Test System, a test system that was affordable enough to allow for a high volume of tests in parallel, and compact enough to sit side-by-side in a small space.

Starting with a bill of materials around $300, each unit fits in just 28×33 cm (0.1 m²) — a tremendous space reduction.

We unveiled the Redoxino™ Test System last week at the International Flow Battery Forum, where it received an enthusiastic response. Now we’re making it widely available in two forms:

• Open-source version: for those who want to build and customize themselves

• Complete build kits: for teams who want to deploy fast and reliably

We’re proud to share the very tool that’s accelerated our own electrolyte and materials discovery pipeline.

Learn more or get your own: www.redoxino.com.