December 18, 2013, Videos

Clean Energy 2030: Building a Sustainable Future

JCESR Director George Crabtree discusses the future of clean energy in “Clean Energy 2030: Building a Sustainable Future,” a UChicago – Argonne – Fermilab Joint Speaker Series Event held at Argonne. Read More

November 18, 2013, Videos

Argonne OutLoud: Energy Storage - JCESR Goes Beyond the Lithium Ion Frontier

Director George Crabtree discusses a new paradigm for battery research, integrating discovery science, battery design and pre-commercial prototyping in one interactive organization. This talk presents the vision and strategy of JCESR. Read More

October 23, 2013, Videos

Building a Better Battery

Phil Ponce speaks with Director George Crabtree about the Joint Center for Energy Storage’s research and initiative to build a better battery. Read More

December 13, 2012, Videos

A Scientist Answers Your Battery Questions

Venkat Srinivasan, JCESR Deputy Director of Integration, answers several of your questions about the future of battery research. Check it out to learn more about research related to electric vehicles, renewable energy, new materials, and careers in battery science. Read More

December 3, 2012, Videos

Press Conference on the Batteries and Energy Storage Hub Announcement: November 30, 2012

UChicago President Robert Zimmer was joined by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on November 30, 2012, to announce that a multi-partner team led by Argonne National Laboratory was selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub, the Joint Center for Energy Storage (JCESR). Read More

November 30, 2012, Videos

Joint Center for Energy Storage Research

The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) is a major research partnership that integrates government, academic, and industrial researchers from many disciplines to overcome critical scientific and technical barriers and create new breakthrough energy storage technology. Read More

August 8, 2012, Videos

Argonne's Materials Engineering Research Facility

Argonne’s Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) enables the development of manufacturing processes for producing advanced battery materials in sufficient quantity for industrial testing. The research conducted in this program is known as process scale-up. Read More

July 17, 2012, Videos

Scientists Probe Lithium-Sulfur Batteries in Real Time

Lithium-sulfur batteries are a promising technology that could some day power electric vehicles. Scientists at SLAC and Stanford University took microscope snapshots of individual sulfur particles — the first real-time imaging of a lithium-sulfur battery in operation. Read More