Physical Sciences and Engineering
Collaborative Research
Argonne’s collaborations with other labs, companies and academic institutions are vital to ensuring the success of our research efforts. The laboratory is home to a number of world-class user facilities that host hundreds of scientists annually.
Argonne Accelerator Institute
The Argonne Accelerator Institute (AAI) utilizes Argonne’s extensive accelerator resources to enhance existing facilities, determine the future of accelerator development and construction, and oversee a dynamic and acclaimed accelerator physics portfolio
Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science
Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) is a powerful collaborative of scientists and engineers from across Argonne that solves energy storage problems through multidisciplinary research. ACCESS is the key that unlocks the potential of energy storage, helping public and private-sector customers turn science into solutions.
Argonne Microelectronics Institute
The Argonne Microelectronics Institute (AMI), is shaping the future of energy-efficient technologies and resilient manufacturing.
Argonne Quantum Institute
The Argonne Quantum Institute (AQI) aims to expand and promote the diverse quantum research activities at Argonne National Laboratory and to enhance partnerships with industry, academia and other U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories.
Center for Predictive Simulation of Functional Materials
The Center for Predictive Simulation of Functional Materials develops, applies, validates and disseminates parameter-free methods, open source codes and scientific data to predict and explain the properties of functional materials for energy applications. The Center aims to quantitatively predict, analyze and eventually design functional materials with tailored properties that will accelerate new materials development and bring enabling and essential clarity to our modeling and understanding of functional materials.
Energy Frontier Research Centers
Argonne plays a key role in several U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs), including leading the Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems (AMEWS) center. These integrated, multi-investigator centers involve partnerships among universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations and for-profit firms that conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more “grand challenges.”
Energy Storage Research Alliance
The Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) unites leading experts from national labs and universities to pave the way for energy storage and next-generation battery discovery that will shape the future of power. Led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, ESRA aims to transform the landscape of materials chemistry and unlock the mysteries of electrochemical phenomena at the atomic scale.
MICCoM
Headquartered at Argonne National Laboratory, the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials (MICCoM) develops and disseminates interoperable open source software, data and validation procedures, enabling the community to simulate and predict properties of functional materials for energy conversion processes. Emphasis is on interfaces, the transport across them, and the manipulation of matter under conditions far from equilibrium.
NAISE
The Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE) brings together researchers at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory to create powerful collaborations in fields such as energy, biological and environmental systems, data science and computation, materials, and national security.
Q-NEXT
Led by Argonne, Q-NEXT is a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center focused developing the science and technology for controlling and distributing quantum information. Q-NEXT brings together world-leading experts from more than 20 research institutions across national labs, academia and industry.