IonVe - Electrochemical Reactors

Mission

To enable scalable, affordable, and high-performance electrochemical energy systems through modular and manufacturable reactor technologies.

The challenge

Electrochemical energy systems, especially redox-flow batteries for stationary energy storage and electrolyzers, face a scalability bottleneck driven by complex, costly, and poorly optimized reactor (stack) architectures. Despite major investment and advances in chemistry, many designs remain direct scale-ups of laboratory hardware, relying on graphite/metal parts and multi-component assemblies that constrain design freedom, increase cost, and hinder manufacturability and rapid iteration. As a result, performance and reliability fall short of their true potential, delaying industrial adoption and large-scale deployment of energy-storage and conversion technologies.

The solution

We develop modular electrochemical reactor components for redox-flow batteries that integrate electrical connection, fluid distribution, and sealing into single manufacturable modules. The architecture is compatible with existing chemistries and balance-of-plant, enabling upgrades without redesigning the full system. Customers can adopt our reactor modules as drop-in subassemblies to reduce mass, material cost, and assembly complexity while improving performance and serviceability. We have built early functional prototypes and are iterating through component-level tests toward integrated stack demonstrations. The same modular platform provides a pathway to future micro-modular reactor units for deeper system-level optimization.