Flow Battery Research Collective

Inspired by Gus to share my journey. Some quite useful info in that thread. I expect my journey to be a bit more "scrappy", given I'm trying to make this work with some items I have lying around. I also might deviate on the first chemistry I test: we'll see.

For now here's a picture of some of the components I've printed, including two peristaltic pump heads that interface with NEMA-17 stepper motors and that use bearings as the rollers. Links to them here:

• https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-peristaltic-pump-63137
• https://makerworld.com/en/models/497147-peristaltic-pump-_-nema-17-_-608-bearings#profileId-622582

Small steps, hoping my next post is me showing whether I can get the pumps to work. I'd be curious if anyone has had success with such 3D-printed pumps. I'll try to provide some more feedback in the coming posts too.

@kirk Fantastic, dropped you an email. Didn't have a chance to make this one but I will try to attend one in the future!

Hi all, I am Alex Quinn, a 6th year Ph.D. candidate experimental researcher in the Brushett Group at MIT.

I've run into your website before, but your presentation at our workshop on flow battery reproducibility inspired me to join this forum. I hope to reproduce some of your efforts. Ideally in the future I can provide feedback and support in items like testing, design, machining, and visibility. I'd be happy to chat more about how I can incrementally contribute as I explore more. Keep up this cool work!

Thanks again Kirk for presenting to us, and for the opportunity to be a part of this community!