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2016 R&D 100 Awards Finalists

By R&D Editors | October 20, 2016

2016 R&D 100 Awards Finalists

Product 

Organization

Analytical/Test  
1-Day ACUVUE MOIST Multifocal Brand Contact Lens Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc.
2100 Liquid Conductivity Meter ILIUM Technology Inc.
AcuScan1500 AcuTech Scientific Inc.
ARIES Luminex Corp.
Aurora Xi Georgetown Rail Equipment Co.
Co-developer: University of Florida, Nuclear Engineering Program
BATTELLE NeuroLife Battelle
Battery ISC Device National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL)
Co-developer: NASA
BGA244 Binary Gas Analyzer Stanford Research Systems
BI-4500 Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing Instrument
Bond Elut Enhanced Matrix Removal-Lipid (EMR-Lipid) Agilent Technologies
Broadband Magnetometry and Temperature-sensing with a Light-trapping Diamond Waveguide MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Collabody Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
Compact Dynamic Beamstop (CDBS) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Connex Spot Monitor Welch Allyn
Containerized Bio-Containment System MRIGlobal
Co-developers: HHI Corporation, GPA Services LLC, U.S. Department of State, The Paul G. Allen Ebola Program
Cool Roof Time Machine Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Co-developer: Concordia University
CorSense Laser and Plasma Technologies, LLC
Dow ACCUTRACE S10 & Falcon Calidus CS The Dow Chemical Co.
Co-developer: Falcon Analytical
Electrofracturing Test System for Water Free Reservoir Stimulation Sandia National Laboratories
EnteroPhone MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Co-developer: MIT
Fast, Multi-Channel Alignment System for Next Generation Silicon Photonics Test & Production PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P.
Flex Plate Brookhaven National Laboratory
Fragment Analyzer FEMTO Pulse Advanced Analytical Technologies, Inc.
G908™ Ballistic GC High Pressure Mass Spectrometer 908 Devices Inc.
GLO Transparent Ceramic Scintillator Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Co-developer: Nanocerox, Inc., Technology Assessment and Transfer, Inc.,  American Isostatic Presses, Inc.
GlycoWorks RapiFluor-MS N-Glycan Kits Waters Corp.
G-mode Microscopy & Spectroscopy Oak Ridge National Laboratory
High-Altitude Attritable Link Offset (HALO) MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Highly Sensitive Sensor for Distributed Methane Leak Detection Argonne National Laboratory
Co-developers: University of Illinois at Chicago, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Aclima Inc.
HOSS: Hybrid Optimization Software Suite Los Alamos National Laboratory
KT-100 Katana Analyzer Rigaku Analytical Devices
LifeScale-R Affinity Biosensors L.L.C.
LithoVue Single-Use Digital Flexible Ureteroscope System Boston Scientific Corp.
Mitrecin A The MITRE Corp.
Monowave 50 Synthesis Reactor Anton Paar GmbH
MRS 7000 Series Preclinical MRI System MR Solutions
Muse Auto CD4/CD4% System MilliporeSigma
NanoBlitz 4D Mechanical Property Tomography Nanomechanics Inc.
NanoLIBS B&W Tek
n-Defender Proportional Technologies Inc.
Co-developers: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Alion Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, ORNL, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Sandia National Laboratory, SSC-Pacific RADIAC Group
Nip Pressure Alignment Tool (NPAT) Tekscan Inc.
Open Port Sampling Interfaces for Mass Spectrometry Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P7700 Series TriMode Probes Tektronix
PanScan Freedom RHK Technology
PearlBeam AquiSense Technologies
PHOTON II Bruker AXS Inc.
Polyarc Reactor Activated Research Co.
Prime sCMOS Camera Photometrics
PuLMo: Pulmonary Lung Model Los Alamos National Laboratory
Purifier Axiom Class II Biological Safety Cabinet Labconco
Real Time Element Monitoring System Staib Instruments Inc.
Co-developers: Army Research Laboratory Army Research Office, STTR Funding
Resolve Cobalt Light Systems Ltd.
Sanger Arrayed Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries MilliporeSigma
Co-developers: Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute, Sigma-Aldrich, EMD Millipore
ScreenChip System NemaMetrix Inc.
Second-Window Infrared Fluorescence Triband Imager (SWIFTI) MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Co-developer: MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts General Hospital (Center for Gynecologic Oncology)
Smart Smoke Alarm Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Co-developer: Walter Kidde Portable Equipment, Inc., including its Affiliates
StenAIR Laserscope MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Co-developer: Massachusetts General Hospital
Thermo Scientific Vanquish Flex UHPLC System Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 
Thermo Scientific Dionex Integrion HPIC system Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 
Thermo Scientific NanoDrop One UV-Vis Microvolume Spectrophotometer Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 
UXI Sandia National Laboratories
Vapor-Phase Identification and Detection of Explosives and Narcotics Technology (VP-IDENT) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
XM Series Keyence America
XPM – Accelerated Property Mapping Hysitron Inc.
ZipChip™ Microfluidic Separations for Mass Spectrometry 908 Devices Inc.
IT/Electrical  
Active Roller Guide System Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
AT&T MetroCell AT&T
Aurora Xi Georgetown Rail Equipment Co.
Co-developer: University of Florida, Nuclear Engineering Program
Battelle DroneDefender Battelle
Compact Dynamic Beamstop (CDBS) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Cortet CEL
Data Diode Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Entropy Engine Los Alamos National Laboratory
Co-developer: Whitewood Encryption Systems, Inc.
FISA University of California, Berkeley
Co-developer: Stanford School of Medicine
Hard X-Ray Scanning Microscope with Multilayer Laue Lens Nanofocusing Optics Brookhaven National Laboratory
Co-developer: Argonne National Laboratory
iSmartweaR Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
Lightweight, High-Performance Wind Power Claw Pole Generator Design Metal Industries Research & Development Centre
Long-distance Floating Multi-screen Head-up Display Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
MarFS Los Alamos National Laboratory
mPaint Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
Neuromorphic Cyber Microscope Sandia National Laboratories
Co-developer: Lewis Rhodes Labs, Inc.
OPTIMIZER3 Circuit Breaker Performance Monitor INCON
PathScan Ernst & Young L.L.P.
Co-developer: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Photonic Band Gap Structures Los Alamos National Laboratory
SAMMCERS Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
Small Airport Surveillance Sensor (SASS) MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Co-developer: Federal Aviation Administration
TC8000 Touch Computer Zebra Technologies
T-QUAKE (Transceiver for Quantum Keys and Encryption) Sandia National Laboratories
Transparent Diamond X-ray Beam Position Monitors Stony Brook University
Co-developers: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University
USBsync (Personal Portable Device Pocket Cloud) Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
Wearable Walking Assistive Exoskeleton Robot, 2WA-EXO Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
Wolfspeed Wide Bandgap Automotive Traction Inverter Wolfspeed,  A Cree Company
Co-developers: Toyota Research Institute of North America, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, University of Arkansas National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission, Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office
Mechanical/Materials  
ACCENT Wax Inhibitor Dow Oil, Gas and Mining
Aerocron 2100 Electrocoat Primer PPG Industries
Co-developers: Air Force Research Labs, NAVAIR
Arconic Micromill Arconic
Alternative Additive Manufactured Metals in Nano-structure Exhibiting Ultra High Strengths ATS-MER, L.L.C. (Materials and Electrochemical Research Corp.)
Co-developer: University of North Texas
CANVERA Polyolefin Dispersions Dow Coating Materials
CapaciTorr HV 200 SAES Getters S.p.A.
Co-developer: SAES Advanced Technologies S.p.A.
Containerized Bio-Containment System MRIGlobal
Co-developers: HHI Corp., GPA Services LLC, U.S. Department of State, The Paul G. Allen Ebola Program
Contaminant Adhesion Mitigating Epoxy Composite Coatings for Aeronautic Environments NASA Langley Research Center
DeltaMax 3000i Milliken & Co.
Desothane Solar Heat Management Coatings PPG Industries
Dow Corning OE-7662/OE-7651N Optical Encapsulants Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.
Dow Corning TC-3040 Thermally Conductive Gel Dow Corning Corp.
Co-developer: IBM Corp.
Dow CTO 2000 Trimming Overcoat Dow Electronic Materials
DSS Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) System Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS)
Co-developers: NASA Glenn Research Center, Air Force Research Laboratory – Space Vehicles Directorate
EcoSnap-AC Heat Pump System National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL)
Enviro-Prime EPIC Electrocoat with Organic Catalyst PPG Industries
Falling Particle Receiver for Concentrated Solar Energy Sandia National Laboratories
Co-developers: Georgia Institute of Technology, Bucknell University, King Saud University, German Aerospace Center
Green Glass Adsorbent Technology Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
Grid Burner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hierarchically Porous Silicon Anodes General Motors Research and Development Center
High Performance Two-Phase Cold-Plate for Automotive Power Electronics Toyota Research Institute of North America
Co-developers: Toyota Motor Corp., Purdue University, Cooling Technologies Research Center
Hitachi Semiconductor Strain Sensor Hitachi Ltd.
Co-developer: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
HVAC Load Reduction (HLR) Technology U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory
HYBRID CITY MULTI Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
IKONIC 4100 Polishing Pads for Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) Dow Electronic Materials
K2 3-volt (3V), 3,000-farad Ultracapacitor Cell Maxwell Technologies
Lightweight Design Solutions for Composites with BETAFORCE 2817 Adhesives for Automotive Mass Production Dow Automotive Systems
LiSr2I5:Eu (LSI)- Neutron Gamma-ray Scintillator Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
Co-developer: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Dr. Hank Zhu
Low-Cost, Flexible, Single-Crystal-Like, Large-Area, CdTe Substrates For Epitaxial Electronic & Electrical Devices TexMat L.L.C.
Co-developer: TapeSolar Inc.
MicroMAX JetMachining Center (Generation 2) OMAX Corp.
MobileShield Semblant
MOR-FREE L PLUS 1/CR 121 The Dow Chemical Co. 
MoSoy catalyst Brookhaven National Laboratory
Nanostructured Anti-reflecting and Water-repellent Surface Coatings Brookhaven National Laboratory
Obi DESīN L.L.C.
Paradigm WG Herbicide with Arylex Active Dow AgroSciences
PhosZero with E-FeX Technology U.S. Water Services Inc.
PIM Membranes for Long-Lived Li-S Batteries Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Co-developers: The Molecular Foundry, The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
Porous Nano-network catalyst Argonne National Laboratory
PuLMo: Pulmonary Lung Model Los Alamos National Laboratory
Quantum-Dot Solar Windows Los Alamos National Laboratory
Co-developer: University of Milano-Bicocca
Self-Healing Paint (Polyfibroblast) The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Sensor Fish Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
SOLARBAN 90 Glass PPG
Solésence Nanophase Technologies Corp.
Solution-Grown Crystals for High-Energy Neutron Detection Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Co-developer: Inrad Optics, Inc.
Stress-induced Fabrication of Functionally Designed Nanomaterials Sandia National Laboratories
Toyota Land Cruiser Prado Toyota Motor Corp.
Co-developer: Toyota Central R&D Labs. Inc.
U-Grabber Oak Ridge National Laboratory
UpCarbon with Versatile Applications Purdue University
Co-developer: SureCarbon Holdings
URABat Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
Co-developer: Stanford University
VERSALOID Flexible Acrylic Resins (FARs) Dow Plastics Additives
Waste Tire Derived Carbon Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Co-developer: RJ Lee Group Inc.
Westex ShieldCXP Westex by Milliken
Zinkicide Agricultural Therapeutic University of Central Florida
Process/Prototyping   
3D Printed Faucets DXV by American Standard
3Dn Series Factory in a Tool NScrypt
Aerocron 2100 Electrocoat Primer PPG Industries
Co-developers: Air Force Research Labs, NAVAIR
Alternative Additive Manufactured Metals in Nano-Structure Exhibiting Ultra High Strengths ATS-MER, LLC (Materials and Electrochemical Research Corp.)
Co-developer: University of North Texas
Biomanufactured Quantum Dots Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Computationally Optimized Homogenization Heat Treatment Process U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory
Conexiom Invoice Automation Solution ecmarket
Contaminant Adhesion Mitigating Epoxy Composite Coatings for Aeronautic Environments NASA Langley Research Center
Direct Remote Laser Welding Process and System General Motors Research and Development Center
FARADAYIC HF-FREE ElectroPolishing Faraday Technology Inc.
Co-developers: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Advanced Energy Systems Inc.
FLSmidth ROL Process FLSmidth USA Inc.
Fluidic Factory Blacktrace Holdings Ltd.
Mobius 2000 Liter Single-Use Bioreactor MilliporeSigma
Pack of Hope RTE Chicken Arroz Caldo as First Stage Disaster/Relief Food Packaging Technology Division
Co-developer: Industrial Technology Development Institute
Philippine Mosquito Ovicidal/Larvicidal (OL) Trap System: DOST Anti-Dengue Device Industrial Technology Development Institute, Department of Science and Technology
Plasma Oxidation Oven for Rapid, Low Energy Polymer Oxidation Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Co-developer: RMX Technologies, L.L.C. (RMX)
Polyelectrolyte Enabled Liftoff (PEEL) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
PuLMo: Pulmonary Lung Model Los Alamos National Laboratory
RETAIN™ Polymer Modifiers The Dow Chemical Co. 
Revo LabMinds
SHARP-SIB(PW) Sharp Laboratories of America Inc. (SLA)
Co-developer: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sustainable and Affordable Fluoride Removal (SAFR) Gadgil Lab for Energy and Water Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
“Training” Process for Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) NASA Glenn Research Center
Tungsten LAM PolarOnyx Inc.
Voxel8 Developer’s Kit Voxel8 Inc.
Software/Services  
ACAS Xu MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Co-developer: Federal Aviation Administration, MITRE, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Ant-Based Cyber Defense (ABCD) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Co-developer: Wake Forest University
Aurora Xi

Georgetown Rail Equipment Co.
Co-developer: University of Florida, Nuclear Engineering Program

CCSI Toolset U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory
Co-developers: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, West Virginia University, Princeton University, Boston University, University of Texas at Austin
Cloud-thread Intelligent Appliance (CIA) Institute for Information Industry
Containerized Bio-Containment System MRIGlobal
Co-developers: HHI Corp., GPA Services LLC, U.S. Department of State, The Paul G. Allen Ebola Program
Cray Comparative Debugging Tool (CCDB 2.0) Cray Inc.
Co-developer: University of Queensland
Digimat e-Xstream engineering
Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model Plus (DER-CAM+) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
E4D-RT: Real-time Four-Dimensional Subsurface Imaging Software Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Exhaust Plume Analyzer The MITRE Corp.
HOSS: Hybrid Optimization Software Suite Los Alamos National Laboratory
HyperMap Spectral Imagery Registration Software The MITRE Corp.
ISERink Iowa State University
LandCast: Locally Adaptive, Spatially Explicit Population Projections Oak Ridge National Laboratory
MarFS Los Alamos National Laboratory
NekCEM/Nek5000: Scalable High-Order Simulation Codes Argonne National Laboratory
Neuromorphic Cyber Microscope Sandia National Laboratories
Co-developer: Lewis Rhodes Labs, Inc.
Offshore Precipitation Capability MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Co-developer: Federal Aviation Administration
ORiGAMI: Oak Ridge Graph Analytics for Medical Innovation Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Physical and Cyber Risk Analysis Tool (PACRAT) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Co-developer: RhinoCorps Ltd, Co.
Pyomo v4.1 Sandia National Laboratories
Co-developers: University of California, Davis, Purdue University
Roof Savings Calculator Suite Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Co-developers: Jacksonville State University, White Box Technologies
Shifter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Smart Glass Guidance System (SGGS) Institute for Information Industry
SoPoWake Autonomous Landslide Surveillance System Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
SPEAKall! SPEAK MODalities L.L.C.
Co-developer: Purdue University – Research Lab on Augmentative and Alternative Communication Principal Investigator: Oliver Wendt
SpeedPro Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)
syngo.via Frontier Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc.
Co-developer: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
Thermo Scientific RadHalo RDP and FM Spectroscopic Area Monitors Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 
Time REsilient System (TRES) Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
Co-developer: San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)
Timely Address Space Randomization (TASR) MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Variable Grid Method for Simultaneously Visualizing Spatial Data Trends and Uncertainty U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory
Co-developer: AECOM
Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA) Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Co-developers: Electric Power Research Institute, Idaho National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, Sandia National Laboratories, Tennessee Valley Authority, University of Michigan, Westinghouse Electric Company

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