The 2019 winners are listed below and sortable by name of product, organization and category. Clicking on the product name will take you to a page with more information.
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!
For an archive of past winners, please go here>>
| Product | Organization | Category | hf:tax:rd100-category |
|---|---|---|---|
| “bioDART Biofouling Monitor” | NCH Corporation/Chem Aqua | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| A Green Battery Printed on LoRa IoT Devices | Nano and Advanced Materials Institute | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| ADDSec Artificial Diversity and Defense Security | Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Software/Services | software-services |
| AF-369 VHF/UHF Terrestrial Direction Finding Antenna | Southwest Research Institute | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Affordable Laser-free Retrofittable Stroboscopic Solution for Ultra-fast Electron Microscopy | Euclid TechLabs, LLC | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| ALFa LDS: Autonomous, Low-Cost, Fast Leak Detection System | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| ArtGut | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| ATOMIC ARMOR: Innovative nanomaterials designed to protect sensitive technologies with a one-atom-thick shield | Los Alamos National Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Bionic Intelligent AGV Fleet System | Metal Industrial Research& Development Centre | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Capacitor-Assisted High Power Battery | General Motors | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| CellSight—Rapid, Native Single-Cell Mass Spectrometry | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| CHIRP: Cloud Hypervisor-forensics and Incident Response Platform | Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Software/Services | software-services |
| Cobalt-Based Nanocrystalline Alloys for Gapless Inductor and Sensor Applications | National Energy Technology Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Commercial Building Energy Saver (CBES) – a tool to enable equitable access to building deep retrofit and zero-net energy strategies for small- and medium-sized commercial buildings | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering | Idaho National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| DeltaFS—Rapidly Searching Big Data to Accelerate Scientific Discovery | Los Alamos National Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| DeltaMax™ Performance Modifiers, masterbatches for polypropylene | Milliken & Company | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| DIFA(Distance Fabric) – New dimension of weaving machine | Taiwan Textile Research Institute | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Digital Twin Solutions for Smart Farming | Institute for Information Industry | Software/Services | software-services |
| Dow Release Modifier for High Efficiency Label Manufacturing | Dow | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Dual-Mode Imaging Receiver | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Electronic Neutron Generator Calibration System | Idaho National Laboratory | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Enhanced Performance Anodic Epoxy Electrocoat | PPG | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Eshmuno® CP-FT Resin | MilliporeSigma | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| EverBatt: Argonne’s Novel Closed-Loop Battery Recycling Model | Argonne National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| FEARCE: Fast, Easy, Accurate, and Robust Continuum Engineering: Improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions in combustion engines | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| First Polyethylene based Build Material in 3D Printing: EVOLV3D™ OBC | Dow Inc. | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Fuel Cell Catalyst with Ultralow Pt Loading | Argonne National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Fully Automatic Heart Function Measurement System Using Real-time 3D Ultrasound Imaging Technology | Hitachi, Ltd. | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Gas Mapping LiDAR ™ | Bridger Photonics, Inc. | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Ghidra | National Security Agency (NSA) | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| GREAT STUFF™ SMART DISPENSER™ | DuPont | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Grid Agents – IoT Multiparameter Sensor Platform for Cyber-Physical Security of the Electric Grid | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| High Energy Density and Safe Battery System for Powering Electric Vehicles | Argonne National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| High Impact Polymer Resin | Toyota Boshoku Corporation | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| High Strength Binder System for Additive Manufacturing | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| High Thermal Conductivity Impregnating Resin – Voltatex® 4224 | Axalta Coating Systems | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| High-Performance Nanoantenna-Enabled Detectors (NEDs) | Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| High-Temperature Irradiation-Resistant Thermocouples (HTIR-TC) | Idaho National Laboratory | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| iKNOBEADS are the world’s first magnetic microparticles with tailorable sizes and shapes. | Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) | Other | other |
| IMPEDE® Embolization Plug | Shape Memory Medical Inc. | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) subsurface monitoring tool | The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| LCTWTA Model 2000HDA-A16, Space-to-Earth Q-band high-power RF amplifier | L3 Technologies Electron Devices Inc. (L3 EDD) | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Lightweight Deployable Array Panels for Space | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Lotus Superhydrophobic Compositions and Coating Process (LotusFlo(TM)) | Southwest Research Institute | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| MailSecur mmWave Full Motion Non-Invasive Imaging System | RaySecur Inc. | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Manufacturing process for extracting high-quality cellulose nanocrystals from biomass | Argonne National Laboratory | Process/Prototyping | process-prototyping |
| Martin Bionics Socketless Socket™ | Martin Bionics LLC | Other | other |
| Marvite Materials (These products are named in honor of the key inventor, Marvis White, who is suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and is now retired from Engi-Mat Co.) | Engi-Mat Co. | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Mass photometry – weighing molecules with light | Refeyn Ltd | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| MC-15 Portable Neutron Multiplicity Detector: Helping emergency response teams quickly identify and assess nuclear-based threats | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| MIRaGE – Multiscale Inverse Rapid Group-Theory for Engineered Metamaterials | Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Software/Services | software-services |
| MLSTONES: Bio-inspired malicious software detection and analysis | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| MoBILE (Mobility and Biomechanics Insert for Load Evaluation) | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Multi-Mode Elpasolite Scintillator – CLLBC | Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. | Process/Prototyping | process-prototyping |
| Nano-functionalized Alloys for Additive Manufacturing | HRL Laboratories, LLC. | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Novel Nanodiamonds for Nanosensing and Quantum Computing | North Carolina State University, Centennial Campus, Raleigh, NC 27695-7907 | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| NWB:N (Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology) | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| Offshore Risk Modeling (ORM) Suite | National Energy Technology Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| Open Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization (OpenMDAO) Framework | NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio | Software/Services | software-services |
| Pendar X10™:A Breakthrough in Short-Range Standoff Raman for Chemical Identification | Pendar Technologies, LLC. | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Persistence Data Mining | Ohio Soybean Council | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Personalized PseudoPatient™: The World’s first phantom for patient-specific quality assurance in brain radiotherapy | RTsafe | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Phased Array Antenna System for In-Band Full-Duplex | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Phononic’s F200 Merchandising Freezer | Phononic | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Polartec® Power Air™ | Polartec | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Portable Radiation Imaging, Spectroscopy and Mapping (PRISM) | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| PRECISE: The World’s Fastest, Smartest Solar Integration Solution | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| QM Quantum Microscope – Next Generation Microscopy & Analysis | KMLabs, Inc. | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| RAIBA – Reconfigurable and Regulatable Battery Array System | Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Rapid Convective Growth Detector | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| Real-time intraoperative parathyroid identification to prevent accidental removal of parathyroid glands during thyroid surgery | Vanderbilt University | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| ResStock™—A 21st-Century Tool for Energy Efficiency Modeling with Unparalleled Granularity | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| Revolutionary Relaxation Process for Sweater Manufacturing | The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel | Process/Prototyping | process-prototyping |
| Safe Power – Safe and Versatile Aqueous Lithium Ion Batteries | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| SAM Reactor System Analysis Code | Argonne National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| SCR Framework: Accelerating Resilience and I/O for Supercomputing Applications | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| Severe Contingency Solver: Electric Power Transmission Analysis | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| SILASTIC™ MS-4007 Moldable Optical Silicone for Eaton’s Ephesus LumAdapt 8 LED Sport’s Stadium Light | Dow Performance Silicones | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| SimCCS2.0: Open-source software for designing CO2 capture, transport, and storage infrastructure | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| Sliding Plating Process | Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Manufacturing Engineering Center | Process/Prototyping | process-prototyping |
| Smartphone using CAAC-IGZO technology (AQUOS R2 series) | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| SolarEdge: World’s 1st EV Charging Solar Inverter with Solar Boost Mode for Up to 6X Faster Charging | SolarEdge Technologies Ltd. | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Spack: A Package Manager for HPC Systems | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| SPLASH: Smart Platforms Leveraging Automated Sample Handling | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Tactical Microgrid Standard (TMS) Open Architecture | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| Targeted Acoustic Laser Communication (TALC) | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Process/Prototyping | process-prototyping |
| The F71 and F41 Teslameters: Innovative Instruments Offering a New Level of Precision, Convenience, and Dependability for Magnetic Analysis, Testing, and Verification | Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| The H-Genie: A smart high pressure hydrogen generator for safer chemistry | ThalesNano Energy | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Thermal Energy Storage System (TESS) | Argonne National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Thermally conductive and emissive PBT resin for heatsink applications | DuPont Transportation & Industrial | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Thermo Scientific Orbitrap ID-X Tribrid Mass Spectrometer system | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) Traffic Aware Planner | NASA Langley Research Center | Software/Services | software-services |
| U.S. FDA Approval: MAVENCLAD® (cladribine) tablets | EMD Serono, the biopharmaceutical business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, in the U.S. and Canada | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| Unified Communications X (UCX): a lightweight exascale-ready communications framework | Los Alamos National Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Visibility Estimation through Image Analytics (VEIA) | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Software/Services | software-services |
| Voltanol: Electrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Ethanol | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials | mechanical-materials |
| Wireless radio Frequency signal Identification and protocol Reverse Engineering—WiFIRE | Idaho National Laboratory | IT/Electrical | it-electrical |
| Xenon International | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
| ZEISS Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM | Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH | Analytical/Test | analytical-test |
2019 R&D Special Recognition Medalists
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