Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center

The mission of the ANSER Center is to create dramatically more efficient technologies for solar fuels and electricity production. 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. 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. The ANSER Center is organized around three basic research thrusts, Subtask 1: Bio-inspired Molecular Materials for Solar Fuels; Subtask 2: Interface Science of Organic Photovoltaics; and Subtask 3: Nanostructured Architectures for Photovoltaic and Photochemical Energy Conversion. Each subtask addresses a solar energy conversion chain culminating in a specific end use. Learn more at www.anser.northwestern.edu and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5vaU95crfQ&feature=relmfu.