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Accelerating discovery in organic redox flow batteries

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We highlight the challenges and opportunities in organic redox flow battery research, underscoring the need for collaborative research efforts. The synergy between computation and experimentation holds the potential to expedite progress in this field and can have far-reaching impacts beyond energy storage applications.

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This research was undertaken thanks to the University of Toronto’s Acceleration Consortium funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund CFREF-2022-00042. A.A.-G. thanks A. G. Frøseth for his generous support. A.A.-G. also acknowledges the generous support of Natural Resources Canada and the Canada 150 Research Chairs program.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Yang Cao & Alán Aspuru-Guzik

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Yang Cao & Alán Aspuru-Guzik

  3. Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Yang Cao & Alán Aspuru-Guzik

  4. Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Alán Aspuru-Guzik

  5. Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Alán Aspuru-Guzik

  6. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Alán Aspuru-Guzik

  7. Lebovic Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Alán Aspuru-Guzik

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Cao, Y., Aspuru-Guzik, A. Accelerating discovery in organic redox flow batteries. Nat Comput Sci 4, 89–91 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-024-00600-z

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