Flow Battery Reproducibility Study Metadata Portal provides a structured place for contributing metadata about experimental practices, equipment choices, and procedural decisions made during multi-institutional studies. These studies bring together several of the world’s leading research groups, national laboratories and industrial partners to understand how experimental practice influences the repeatability, replicability, and reproducibility of flow battery electrochemical testing.
Structured metadata collection allows researchers to compare approaches, identify factors affecting performance variation, and support the development of more consistent testing methodology. In the longer term, the study aims to provide a benchmark datasets for use by the wider community and help new entrants to the field by lowering the barrier to consistent and reliable experimental practices.
At present, the catalogue is populated with metadata gathered through the multiinstitutional study conducted across 2025/26, with contributions from over forty participants worldwide. The resource is openly accessible for browsing, allowing the broader community to explore experimental setups and methodological variation.
In future phases, we plan to open the catalogue to submissions from the wider community and anticipate running further benchmarking studies to expand the collection. The repository is supported and hosted by PSDI partners on behalf of the flow battery research community.
Feedback, suggestions, or enquiries can be directed to Hugh O’Connor (h.oconnor@qub.ac.uk), Josh Bailey (j.bailey@qub.ac.uk), or to the PSDI directly (support@psdi.ac.uk).