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  1. Zn-Br sulfamate battery stability

    On a previous post I discussed my first attempts at reproducing the Na-sulfamate based Zn-Br battery published by a group of Chinese researchers. My results showed that the chemistry works mostly as they showed, but I was unable to reproduce both the capacity and stability properties of their testing results. This post summarizes some additional research results I obtained with this chemistry and why, I believe, my results have been unable to match theirs. From the get go, my results showed […]

    chemisting.com/2026/03/23/zn-b

  2. Zn-Br sulfamate battery stability

    On a previous post I discussed my first attempts at reproducing the Na-sulfamate based Zn-Br battery published by a group of Chinese researchers. My results showed that the chemistry works mostly as they showed, but I was unable to reproduce both the capacity and stability properties of their testing results. This post summarizes some additional research results I obtained with this chemistry and why, I believe, my results have been unable to match theirs. From the get go, my results showed […]

    chemisting.com/2026/03/23/zn-b

  3. Zn-Br sulfamate battery stability

    On a previous post I discussed my first attempts at reproducing the Na-sulfamate based Zn-Br battery published by a group of Chinese researchers. My results showed that the chemistry works mostly as they showed, but I was unable to reproduce both the capacity and stability properties of their testing results. This post summarizes some additional research results I obtained with this chemistry and why, I believe, my results have been unable to match theirs. From the get go, my results showed […]

    chemisting.com/2026/03/23/zn-b

  4. Zn-Br sulfamate battery stability

    On a previous post I discussed my first attempts at reproducing the Na-sulfamate based Zn-Br battery published by a group of Chinese researchers. My results showed that the chemistry works mostly as they showed, but I was unable to reproduce both the capacity and stability properties of their testing results. This post summarizes some additional research results I obtained with this chemistry and why, I believe, my results have been unable to match theirs. From the get go, my results showed […]

    chemisting.com/2026/03/23/zn-b

  5. Zn-Br sulfamate battery stability

    On a previous post I discussed my first attempts at reproducing the Na-sulfamate based Zn-Br battery published by a group of Chinese researchers. My results showed that the chemistry works mostly as they showed, but I was unable to reproduce both the capacity and stability properties of their testing results. This post summarizes some additional research results I obtained with this chemistry and why, I believe, my results have been unable to match theirs. From the get go, my results showed […]

    chemisting.com/2026/03/23/zn-b

  6. Reproducing Zn-Br flow batteries using Sodium Sulfamate

    A recent Chinese Nature paper showed how Sodium sulfamate can be used in Zn-Br batteries to sequester active Br2 into an N-bromosulfamate that is much less aggressive, much more water soluble and even more easily electrochemically reversible than elemental bromine. I also wrote a recent post discussing the potential use of nicotinamide to achieve this (plot twist, it doesn't work as the nicotinamide Zn complex is not very soluble). In today's post I want to share with you my attempts at […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/20/repr

  7. Reproducing Zn-Br flow batteries using Sodium Sulfamate

    A recent Chinese Nature paper showed how Sodium sulfamate can be used in Zn-Br batteries to sequester active Br2 into an N-bromosulfamate that is much less aggressive, much more water soluble and even more easily electrochemically reversible than elemental bromine. I also wrote a recent post discussing the potential use of nicotinamide to achieve this (plot twist, it doesn't work as the nicotinamide Zn complex is not very soluble). In today's post I want to share with you my attempts at […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/20/repr

  8. Reproducing Zn-Br flow batteries using Sodium Sulfamate

    A recent Chinese Nature paper showed how Sodium sulfamate can be used in Zn-Br batteries to sequester active Br2 into an N-bromosulfamate that is much less aggressive, much more water soluble and even more easily electrochemically reversible than elemental bromine. I also wrote a recent post discussing the potential use of nicotinamide to achieve this (plot twist, it doesn't work as the nicotinamide Zn complex is not very soluble). In today's post I want to share with you my attempts at […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/20/repr

  9. Reproducing Zn-Br flow batteries using Sodium Sulfamate

    A recent Chinese Nature paper showed how Sodium sulfamate can be used in Zn-Br batteries to sequester active Br2 into an N-bromosulfamate that is much less aggressive, much more water soluble and even more easily electrochemically reversible than elemental bromine. I also wrote a recent post discussing the potential use of nicotinamide to achieve this (plot twist, it doesn't work as the nicotinamide Zn complex is not very soluble). In today's post I want to share with you my attempts at […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/20/repr

  10. Reproducing Zn-Br flow batteries using Sodium Sulfamate

    A recent Chinese Nature paper showed how Sodium sulfamate can be used in Zn-Br batteries to sequester active Br2 into an N-bromosulfamate that is much less aggressive, much more water soluble and even more easily electrochemically reversible than elemental bromine. I also wrote a recent post discussing the potential use of nicotinamide to achieve this (plot twist, it doesn't work as the nicotinamide Zn complex is not very soluble). In today's post I want to share with you my attempts at […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/20/repr

  11. Could we create a Zn-Br flow battery using Nicotinamide?

    Zinc bromide flow batteries have been researched very extensively during the past 30 years. There are many advantages to this chemistry, very high potential (~1.8V), high efficiencies, symmetric electrolyte and low reagent costs. Nonetheless, the disadvantages are also huge: zinc dendrites, hydrogen evolution, bromine corrosion, etc. Despite all the development, a lot of these disadvantages remain insurmountable. A recent nature paper has disrupted the field by using sulfamate ions as a […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/13/coul

  12. Could we create a Zn-Br flow battery using Nicotinamide?

    Zinc bromide flow batteries have been researched very extensively during the past 30 years. There are many advantages to this chemistry, very high potential (~1.8V), high efficiencies, symmetric electrolyte and low reagent costs. Nonetheless, the disadvantages are also huge: zinc dendrites, hydrogen evolution, bromine corrosion, etc. Despite all the development, a lot of these disadvantages remain insurmountable. A recent nature paper has disrupted the field by using sulfamate ions as a […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/13/coul

  13. Could we create a Zn-Br flow battery using Nicotinamide?

    Zinc bromide flow batteries have been researched very extensively during the past 30 years. There are many advantages to this chemistry, very high potential (~1.8V), high efficiencies, symmetric electrolyte and low reagent costs. Nonetheless, the disadvantages are also huge: zinc dendrites, hydrogen evolution, bromine corrosion, etc. Despite all the development, a lot of these disadvantages remain insurmountable. A recent nature paper has disrupted the field by using sulfamate ions as a […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/13/coul

  14. Could we create a Zn-Br flow battery using Nicotinamide?

    Zinc bromide flow batteries have been researched very extensively during the past 30 years. There are many advantages to this chemistry, very high potential (~1.8V), high efficiencies, symmetric electrolyte and low reagent costs. Nonetheless, the disadvantages are also huge: zinc dendrites, hydrogen evolution, bromine corrosion, etc. Despite all the development, a lot of these disadvantages remain insurmountable. A recent nature paper has disrupted the field by using sulfamate ions as a […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/13/coul

  15. Could we create a Zn-Br flow battery using Nicotinamide?

    Zinc bromide flow batteries have been researched very extensively during the past 30 years. There are many advantages to this chemistry, very high potential (~1.8V), high efficiencies, symmetric electrolyte and low reagent costs. Nonetheless, the disadvantages are also huge: zinc dendrites, hydrogen evolution, bromine corrosion, etc. Despite all the development, a lot of these disadvantages remain insurmountable. A recent nature paper has disrupted the field by using sulfamate ions as a […]

    chemisting.com/2026/02/13/coul

  16. Studying a WiSE based all-Fe chemistry using our flow battery kit

    All-Fe flow batteries are very promising due to iron's high abundance, low toxicity and low cost. In these batteries, FeCl2 is used as the main active salt in solution. When charging Fe2+ gets reduced to Fe metal on the anode while Fe2+ gets oxidized to Fe3+ on the cathode. However, these batteries suffer from a fundamental problem that has made their large scale adoption very difficult up until now. Cyclic voltammetry of 1M FeCl2 and 4.5M CaCl2 using an Ag/AgCl reference electrode and a […]

    chemisting.com/2025/09/15/stud

  17. Studying a WiSE based all-Fe chemistry using our flow battery kit

    All-Fe flow batteries are very promising due to iron's high abundance, low toxicity and low cost. In these batteries, FeCl2 is used as the main active salt in solution. When charging Fe2+ gets reduced to Fe metal on the anode while Fe2+ gets oxidized to Fe3+ on the cathode. However, these batteries suffer from a fundamental problem that has made their large scale adoption very difficult up until now. Cyclic voltammetry of 1M FeCl2 and 4.5M CaCl2 using an Ag/AgCl reference electrode and a […]

    chemisting.com/2025/09/15/stud

  18. Studying an all-Fe chemistry using WiSE in our flow battery kit

    All-Fe flow batteries are very promising due to iron's high abundance, low toxicity and low cost. In these batteries, FeCl2 is used as the main active salt in solution. When charging Fe2+ gets reduced to Fe metal on the anode while Fe2+ gets oxidized to Fe3+ on the cathode. However, these batteries suffer from a fundamental problem that has made their large scale adoption very difficult up until now. Cyclic voltammetry of 1M FeCl2 and 4.5M CaCl2 using an Ag/AgCl reference electrode and a […]

    chemisting.com/2025/09/15/stud

  19. Studying an all-Fe chemistry using WiSE in our flow battery kit

    All-Fe flow batteries are very promising due to iron's high abundance, low toxicity and low cost. In these batteries, FeCl2 is used as the main active salt in solution. When charging Fe2+ gets reduced to Fe metal on the anode while Fe2+ gets oxidized to Fe3+ on the cathode. However, these batteries suffer from a fundamental problem that has made their large scale adoption very difficult up until now. Cyclic voltammetry of 1M FeCl2 and 4.5M CaCl2 using an Ag/AgCl reference electrode and a […]

    chemisting.com/2025/09/15/stud

  20. Studying a WiSE based all-Fe chemistry using our flow battery kit

    All-Fe flow batteries are very promising due to iron's high abundance, low toxicity and low cost. In these batteries, FeCl2 is used as the main active salt in solution. When charging Fe2+ gets reduced to Fe metal on the anode while Fe2+ gets oxidized to Fe3+ on the cathode. However, these batteries suffer from a fundamental problem that has made their large scale adoption very difficult up until now. Cyclic voltammetry of 1M FeCl2 and 4.5M CaCl2 using an Ag/AgCl reference electrode and a […]

    chemisting.com/2025/09/15/stud

  21. Our v2 Open Source Flow Battery Small Scale Kit is now stable

    After a lot of work on our small scale flow battery kit, the kit has now reached a form factor that is stable and will only require minor cosmetic changes from now on (to do things like hide exposed cabling, etc). The instructions for assembly of the kit are available at fbrc.dev. The kit is the culmination of 2 years of hard work from our team at the Flow Battery Research Collective, especially Kirk Smith and Josh Hauser, who both worked tirelessly with me in the design and fabrication of […]

    chemisting.com/2025/07/03/our-

  22. Our v2 Open Source Flow Battery Small Scale Kit is now stable

    After a lot of work on our small scale flow battery kit, the kit has now reached a form factor that is stable and will only require minor cosmetic changes from now on (to do things like hide exposed cabling, etc). The instructions for assembly of the kit are available at fbrc.dev. The kit is the culmination of 2 years of hard work from our team at the Flow Battery Research Collective, especially Kirk Smith and Josh Hauser, who both worked tirelessly with me in the design and fabrication of […]

    chemisting.com/2025/07/03/our-

  23. Working on a large scale open source flow battery design and kit

    During the past couple of years we have been working on the design of a small flow battery kit for the study of flow batteries (you can read a previous post about it here). With the help of an NLNet grant, we have fully developed the first two versions of our small scale kit – with the second one achieving even longer scale tests – and are now working on the development of a larger surface area kit that can be used to study flow batteries or build flow battery applications at a relevant […]

    chemisting.com/2025/06/22/work