ANSER Center | Northwestern University | Argonne National Laboratory

ANSER Center PIs and ANSER Symposium guest speakers gather at the ANSER Center's annual Symposium.

Bringing Solar Fuel Closer to Reality

Promoting the Creative Exchange of Ideas

ANSER Symposium keynote speaker Dr Stephen Forrest (University of Michigan) gives his talk, "From Nanostructure to High Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaics."

Hands On Experience
The ANSER Center prides itself on the active participation of its undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers.

Promoting the Creative Exchange of Ideas
At the ANSER Center's 2013 Symposium, center members and symposium visitors attend lectures by some of the world's most renowned and up-and-coming experts in the field of solar electricity.

Five Research Organizations, One Team

The ANSER Center was founded in July of 2007 to create a joint research effort at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory with selected groups from Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Chicago in the area of solar energy conversion and solar fuels production. In 2009, ANSER received a $19 Million Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Together, our five institutions offer a critical mass of world-class researchers, with unique capabilities and facilities in materials synthesis, characterization, and theory. The nature and complexity of these problems requires an integrated systems approach and focused, team-oriented interdisciplinary research with close communication and coordination among team members. read more

Research Areas

The ANSER Center is organized around three basic research thrusts, each dealing with a solar energy conversion chain culminating in a specific end use.