CLEVELAND, October 29, 2019 — Winners of the R&D 100 Awards have been announced by R&D World magazine and its new parent company, WTWH Media, LLC.

“This awards program is so well recognized across the R&D community. Being named as one of the R&D 100 is an incredible honor,” said Paul J. Heney, Vice President, Editorial Director for R&D World. “These 100 winning products and technologies are the disruptors that will change industries and make the world a better place in the coming years.”

The winners are listed below by category, and then alphabetically by submission name. Under the product name, the primary submitting organization is listed, followed by the names of co-developing organizations, if applicable.

Primary organizations that took three or more R&D 100 Awards are: Argonne National Laboratory, Dow Chemical, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NETL, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories.

Additionally, judges awarded several submissions in the four Special Recognition categories, potentially giving a Gold, Silver and Bronze in each. Those are listed below the R&D 100 winners. Congratulations to all!

The R&D 100 Awards Banquet will take place on Thursday, December 5th at the San Mateo Marriott near San Francisco, California — in conjunction with the R&D 100 Conference. For more information, please visit www.rd100conference.com and register today.

 

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Category: Analytical/Test

Affordable Laser-free Retrofittable Stroboscopic Solution for Ultra-fast Electron Microscopy
Euclid TechLabs, LLC
JEOL USA Inc. Brookhaven National Laboratory NIST

ArtGut
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

bioDART Biofouling Monitor
NCH Corporation/Chem Aqua

CellSight
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Cytena GmbH

Electronic Neutron Generator Calibration System
Idaho National Laboratory

Fully Automatic Heart Function Measurement System Using Real-time 3D Ultrasound Imaging Technology
Hitachi, Ltd.

Gas Mapping LiDAR™
Bridger Photonics, Inc.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

High-Performance Nanoantenna-Enabled Detectors (NEDs)
Sandia National Laboratories

High-Temperature Irradiation-Resistant Thermocouples (HTIR-TC)
Idaho National Laboratory

IMPEDE® Embolization Plug
Shape Memory Medical Inc.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Texas A&M University

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) subsurface monitoring tool
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory

MailSecur mmWave Full Motion Non-Invasive Imaging System
RaySecur Inc.
Institut National d’Optique (INO)

Mass photometry – weighing molecules with light
Refeyn Ltd

MC-15 Portable Neutron Multiplicity Detector
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories

Pendar X10™
Pendar Technologies, LLC.

Persistence Data Mining
Ohio Soybean Council
Persistence Data Mining Inc.

Personalized PseudoPatient™
RTsafe

Portable Radiation Imaging, Spectroscopy and Mapping (PRISM)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
DOD Defense Threat Reduction Agency

QM Quantum Microscope – Next Generation Microscopy & Analysis
KMLabs, Inc.
JILA at the University of Colorado, the STROBE center

Real-time intraoperative parathyroid identification to prevent accidental removal of parathyroid glands during thyroid surgery
Vanderbilt University
Ai Biomed

SPLASH: Smart Platforms Leveraging Automated Sample Handling
Los Alamos National Laboratory

The F71 and F41 Teslameters
Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc.

The H-Genie
ThalesNano Energy
University of Szeged

Thermo Scientific Orbitrap ID-X Tribrid Mass Spectrometer system
Thermo Fisher Scientific

U.S. FDA Approval: MAVENCLAD® (cladribine) tablets
EMD Serono, the biopharmaceutical business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, in the U.S. and Canada

Xenon International
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Teledyne Brown Engineering

ZEISS Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH

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Category: IT/Electrical

AF-369 VHF/UHF Terrestrial Direction Finding Antenna
Southwest Research Institute

ATOMIC ARMOR
Los Alamos National Laboratory

DeltaFS—Rapidly Searching Big Data to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Carnegie Mellon University

Dual-Mode Imaging Receiver
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Ghidra
National Security Agency (NSA)

Grid Agents
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Brixon

LCTWTA Model 2000HDA-A16, Space-to-Earth Q-band high-power RF amplifier
L3 Technologies Electron Devices Inc. (L3 EDD)
L3 Technologies Narda Microwave-West (L3 NMW); NASA Glenn Research Center (NASA GRC)

Lightweight Deployable Array Panels for Space
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

MoBILE (Mobility and Biomechanics Insert for Load Evaluation)
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Aperture Level Simultaneous Transmit and Receive Phased Arrays
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

PRECISE
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sacramento Municipal Utility District

RAIBA – Reconfigurable and Regulatable Battery Array System
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)

Safe Power – Safe and Versatile Aqueous Lithium Ion Batteries
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Maryland (UMD) and Army Research Laboratory (ARL)

Smartphone using CAAC-IGZO technology (AQUOS R2 series)
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation

Unified Communications X (UCX)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Arm Ltd., Mellanox Technologies, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Argonne National Laboratory, NVIDIA, Stony Brook University, Rice University

Wireless radio Frequency signal Identification and protocol Reverse Engineering—WiFIRE
Idaho National Laboratory
University of Utah School of Computing

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Category: Mechanical/Materials

A Green Battery Printed on LoRa IoT Devices
Nano and Advanced Materials Institute
Neosen Energy HK Limited

Bionic Intelligent AGV Fleet System
Metal Industrial Research& Development Centre

Capacitor-Assisted High Power Battery
General Motors

Cobalt-Based Nanocrystalline Alloys for Gapless Inductor and Sensor Applications
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Carnegie Mellon University Metglas, Inc.; Eaton Corporation

DeltaMax™ Performance Modifiers, masterbatches for polypropylene
Milliken & Company

DIFA(Distance Fabric)
Taiwan Textile Research Institute
VÚTS, a.s.

Dow Release Modifier for High Efficiency Label Manufacturing
Dow
UPM Raflatac

Enhanced Performance Anodic Epoxy Electrocoat
PPG

Eshmuno® CP-FT Resin
MilliporeSigma

FEARCE: Fast, Easy, Accurate, and Robust Continuum Engineering
Los Alamos National Laboratory

First Polyethylene based Build Material in 3D Printing: EVOLV3D™ OBC
Dow Inc.

Fuel Cell Catalyst with Ultralow Pt Loading
Argonne National Laboratory

GREAT STUFF™ SMART DISPENSER™
DuPont
Dow

High Energy Density and Safe Battery System for Powering Electric Vehicles
Argonne National Laboratory
Microvast Inc.

High Impact Polymer Resin
Toyota Boshoku Corporation
Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.

High Strength Binder System for Additive Manufacturing
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The ExOne Company

High Thermal Conductivity Impregnating Resin – Voltatex® 4224
Axalta Coating Systems

Lotus Superhydrophobic Compositions and Coating Process (LotusFlo™)
Southwest Research Institute
Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc. ShawCor

Marvite Materials
Engi-Mat Co.

Nano-functionalized Alloys for Additive Manufacturing
HRL Laboratories, LLC.

Novel Nanodiamonds for Nanosensing and Quantum Computing
North Carolina State University, Centennial Campus
Q-Carbon, LLC

Phononic’s F200 Merchandising Freezer
Phononic

Polartec® Power Air™
Polartec

SILASTIC™ MS-4007 Moldable Optical Silicone for Eaton’s Ephesus LumAdapt 8 LED Sport’s Stadium Light
Dow Performance Silicones
Eaton Lighting

SolarEdge: World’s 1st EV Charging Solar Inverter with Solar Boost Mode for Up to 6X Faster Charging
SolarEdge Technologies Ltd.

Thermal Energy Storage System (TESS)
Argonne National Laboratory

Thermally conductive and emissive PBT resin for heatsink applications
DuPont Transportation & Industrial

Voltanol
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Reactwell, LLC

 

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Category: Other

iKNOBEADS
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH)

Martin Bionics Socketless Socket™
Martin Bionics LLC

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Category: Process/Prototyping

Manufacturing process for extracting high-quality cellulose nanocrystals from biomass
Argonne National Laboratory
University of Chicago and Aloterra Energy LLC

Multi-Mode Elpasolite Scintillator – CLLBC
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency; Department of Energy, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D (NA-22); U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office

Revolutionary Relaxation Process for Sweater Manufacturing
The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Sliding Plating Process
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Manufacturing Engineering Center
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Power Distribution Systems Center

Targeted Acoustic Laser Communication (TALC)
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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Category: Software/Services

ADDSec Artificial Diversity and Defense Security
Sandia National Laboratories

ALFa LDS: Autonomous, Low-Cost, Fast Leak Detection System
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Aeris Technologies Rice University

CHIRP: Cloud Hypervisor-forensics and Incident Response Platform
Sandia National Laboratories

Commercial Building Energy Saver (CBES)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering
Idaho National Laboratory

Digital Twin Solutions for Smart Farming
Institute for Information Industry

EverBatt: Argonne’s Novel Closed-Loop Battery Recycling Model
Argonne National Laboratory

MIRaGE – Multiscale Inverse Rapid Group-Theory for Engineered Metamaterials
Sandia National Laboratories
Stellar Science LLC

MLSTONES
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

NWB:N (Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Vidrio Technologies, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Offshore Risk Modeling (ORM) Suite
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research, and Innovation Center (MATRIC)

Open Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization (OpenMDAO) Framework
NASA Glenn Research Center

Rapid Convective Growth Detector
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Federal Aviation Administration

ResStock™
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

SAM Reactor System Analysis Code
Argonne National Laboratory

SCR Framework
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory

Severe Contingency Solver
Los Alamos National Laboratory

SimCCS2.0
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Montana State University Indiana University

Spack: A Package Manager for HPC Systems
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory; Columbia University; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Iowa State University; Kitware, Inc.; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Center for Climate Systems Research; National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center; Perimeter Institute; University of Hamburg; University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; University of Iowa

Tactical Microgrid Standard (TMS) Open Architecture
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
USACE CERL: US Army Corps of Engineers—Construction Engineering Research Laboratory; U.S. Army CCDC C5ISR: C5ISR Center, Command, Power, and Integration Directorate, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM); Parsons: Parsons Mission Command Decision Support Solutions; HG Engineers: Humber-Garick Consulting Engineers; TMSC: Tactical Microgrid Standard Consortium Members; PM E2S2: US Army Project Manager Expeditionary Energy and Sustainment Systems; SEL: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories; USMC: US Marine Corps

Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) Traffic Aware Planner
NASA Langley Research Center

Visibility Estimation through Image Analytics (VEIA)
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

 

2019 R&D Special Recognition Medalists

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Special Recognition: Corporate Social Responsibility

GOLD
RETRO Rx: Rapid, Easy Tools for Responding to Outbreaks and Re-emergence Events
Los Alamos National Laboratory

SILVER
SimCCS2.0: Open-source software for designing CO2 capture, transport, and storage infrastructure
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Montana State University Indiana University

Special Recognition: Green Tech

GOLD
SiC-Based Monolithic Transistor-Rectifier Semiconductor Switch
Sandia National Laboratories
GeneSic Semiconductor Inc.  U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program

SILVER
Ducted Fuel Injection
Sandia National Laboratories

BRONZE
Zero Waste Compact Water Dispenser
Nano and Advanced Materials Institute
Mind Body (Asia) Limited

Special Recognition: Market Disruptor – Services

GOLD
VaporID
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

SILVER
Spack: A Package Manager for HPC Systems
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory; Columbia University; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Iowa State University; Kitware, Inc.; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Center for Climate Systems Research; National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center; Perimeter Institute; University of Hamburg; University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; University of Iowa

Special Recognition: Market Disruptor – Products

GOLD
ATOMIC ARMOR
Los Alamos National Laboratory

SILVER
Riptide MkII Micro-Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
BAE Systems, FAST Labs

BRONZE
Stable Nanocrystalline Metal Alloy Coatings with Ultra-Low Wear
Sandia National Laboratories