Videos
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#AskBerkeleyLab: Batteries for Electric Cars
Venkat Srinivasan, Department Head-Energy Storage and Distributed Resources at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and JCESR Deputy Director of Integration, explains how battery scientists are addressing the need for EVs with increased range and greater environmental impact. Read More
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Next-Generation Batteries: A New Report
Venkat Srinivasan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Yi Cui, Stanford University; Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo; and Michael F. Toney, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory talk to media prior to their symposium entitled Next-Generation Batteries for Mobile Devices and the Grid at AAAS 2015 Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. Read More
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Energy Storage: Building a Better Battery via Public-Private Partnership
Clean Energy Innovation: Building a better battery via public-private partnership – A team of government, university, and industry partners is seeking to create a next-generation battery that will help electric cars drive farther, provide renewable energy storage and help improve the electricity grid. Read More
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The energy manhattan project that will change everything | Jeff Chamberlain | TEDxNaperville
Jeff Chamberlain gave a TEDx talk focused on the importance of energy storage and the role JCESR is taking in the quest for better batteries. Read More
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Future of Clean Energy in the Midwest
David Danielson, Assistant Secretary for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for the Department of Energy; Amy Francetic, CEO of the Clean Energy Trust; and Mark Peters, the Associate Laboratory Director for the Energy and Global Security Directorate at Argonne National Laboratory discuss the future of Clean Energy in the Midwest. Read More
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JCESR: Moving Beyond Lithium-Ion
This video entitled, “JCESR: Moving Beyond Lithium-Ion,” gives an overview of JCESR’s goals and its vision to transform transportation and the electricity grid with high-performance, low cost energy storage Read More
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The Battery Storage Hub is Making the Battery of the Future
Deputy Director Jeff Chamberlain (JCESR) details how JCESR research is aimed at developing batteries that will make electric vehicles cost competitive with the internal combustion engine. Read More
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A Look Inside SLAC's Battery Lab
Stanford materials science and engineering graduate student Zhi Wei Seh shows how he prepares battery materials in SLAC’s energy storage laboratory. Read More
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Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries
JCESR Director George Crabtree and Deputy Director Jeff Chamberlain discuss how JCESR will go beyond lithium ion batteries in this audio podcast. Read More
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David Willets Visits JCESR
UK Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts, visited Argonne National Laboratory and the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR). Read More
Latest Updates
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JCESR Concludes Decade-Long Mission, Leaves Lasting Impact on Battery Science
The official end of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) innovation hub occurred in June 2023 after more than a decade of research and development dedicated to one of humanity’s most pressing challenges: the development of a better battery to help usher in… Read More
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You’re Invited - JCESR and Beyond: Translating the Basic Science of Batteries
Please join us at Argonne National Laboratory on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 for JCESR and Beyond: Translating the Basic Science of Batteries. Registration is now open. This in-person event will celebrate 10 years of research from the Joint Center… Read More
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A Message from JCESR: In Memory of George Crabtree
It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to George Crabtree, a Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, and Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), who passed away unexpectedly on January 23. Dr. Read More
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Cyanopyridines As Extremely Low-Reduction-Potential Anolytes for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries
Discovery of a cyanophenylpyridine derivative with a very low reduction potential and good stability during cycling. Read More
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Characterizing Redoxmer – Electrode Kinetics Using a SECM-Based Spot Analysis Method
Identified asymmetries in electron transfer (ET) kinetics between the reduction and oxidation of ferrocene-based redoxmers by measuring the ET rate constants (kf/kb) as a function of electrode potential. Read More
