R&D 100 Archive of Winners
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| Product | Organization | Co-Developers |
|---|---|---|
| A better look at heart disease | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Henry Benner (Primary), Ronald Krauss (Primary), Patricia Blanche (Primary) |
| A healthy fiber-free diet | Mattech Corp., Micropyretics Heaters International Inc | Jenq Liu (Primary), Jainagesh Sekhar (Primary) |
| A new approach to tire design | Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| A new breed of graphite electrodes | GrafTech International, Inc. | |
| A safe return to flight | NASA (Glenn Research Center), QSS Group Inc | Mrityunjay Singh (Primary), Tarah Shpargel (Primary) |
| Advanced search interface | Hitachi Ltd. (Central Research Laboratory) | |
| Advancing EUV | EUV Technology | James Underwood (Primary) |
| Advancing optical telecommunications | Optimer Photonics | |
| Advancing x-ray diffraction | Bruker AXS, Inc. | |
| Always ready | JP Laboratories | Gordham Patel (Primary) |
| Anyway you want it | The Dow Chemical Company | |
| Automated image correction | Infinity Photo-Optical Company, Intelligent Imaging Innovations | |
| Avoiding false alarms | NASA (Glenn Research Center), Makel Engineering, Inc., Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University | |
| Better sulfur analysis | XOS (X-Ray Optical Systems) Inc. | |
| Biotech corn stops pests cold | Monsanto Co. | |
| Blu-ray hits 50! | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. | |
| Boosting semiconductor manufacturing | Swagelok Company | William Glime (Primary) |
| Breakthrough catalyst | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Bryce Tappan (Primary) |
| Broader refractometry | Wyatt Technology Corp | Steven Trainoff (Primary), Michael Larkin (Primary), Miles Weida (Primary), Philip Wyatt (Primary) |
| Building better batteries | A123 Systems | Andy Chu (Primary), Bart Riley (Primary), Courtney Brown (Primary), David Vieau (Primary), Ric Fulop (Primary), Stefanie Vieau (Primary), Yet-Ming Chiang (Primary), Paul Gionet (Primary) |
| Changing the LC baseline | Waters Corp. | |
| Cleaning up nuclear plants | Electric Power Research Institute, Dominion Engineering, Inc., AmerenUE, Exelon Corp., South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Co. | |
| Controlling ship erosion | Arkema Inc | |
| Cost-effective oxygen sensors | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Ohio State University | |
| Creative nanotechnology | Reactive NanoTechnoloiges, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Johns Hopkins University | Timothy Weihs (Primary), Omar Knio (Primary) |
| Detecting gas leaks from a distance | Health Consultants Inc., Northeast Gass Association, Physical Sciences Inc | |
| Diamonds are electronics’ best friend | Material and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corp | |
| Discovering more durable glass | 3M Co. (Abrasive Systems Division) | |
| Dynamic interferometry | 4D Technology Corporation | Michael North Morris (Primary), James Millerd (Primary), Neal Brock (Primary), James Semrad (Primary) |
| Enhancing pipeline inspection | Battelle Memorial Institute | |
| Ensuring water quality | Hach Company (Homeland Security Technologies) | Karl King (Primary), Dan Kroll (Primary) |
| Environmentally-friendly conductive coatings | Eikos Inc | Paul Glatkowski (Primary) |
| Fast synthesis and analysis | CEM Corp., DeltaNu | |
| Fast, large-scale microscopy | DMetrix Inc | |
| First ion trap HPLC | Shimadzu Corp., Shimadzu Scientific Instruments | |
| First-ever JAVA-based simulation tool | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Focus factor | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Chian Liu (Primary) |
| Focusing on the eye | Visual Pathways, Inc. | |
| Four-dimensional imaging | Carl Zeiss (Advanced Imaging Microscopy), Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc | |
| From waste to fluff | Battelle Memorial Institute, Bouldin Corporation | |
| Fuel cell-powered RFID | MTI MicroFuel Cells, Inc., Intermec Technologies Corp. | |
| Getting better connected | Logical Solutions, Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Getting more from hydrocarbon feedstock | Eltron Research Inc | |
| High power pulsed laser | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| High resolution optical profiling | Veeco Instruments Inc | |
| High-energy imaging | Quantar Technology Inc., Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| High-temperature composites | AON Explorer, M&P Technologies, NASA (Langley Research Center), Ube America Inc. | |
| Images from the front line | Idaho National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Kevin Young (Primary) |
| Improving auto collision safety | Toyota Motor Corp. | |
| Improving cardiac imaging | Philips Ultrasound | Rajesh Panda (Primary), Jie Chen (Primary) |
| Improving gas turbine engines | Ames Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Iowa State University | Brian Gleeson (Primary), Daniel Sordelet (Primary) |
| Improving HVAC | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), SEMCO, Inc. | James Sand (Primary), John Fischer (Primary) |
| Improving thermal protection | Carbtex Corpoation, Perfect Fit Glove Co., Ultraknit Thermtex | |
| Integrating power measurements | FieldMetrics Inc | Michael Brubaker (Primary), Christopher Yakymyshyn (Primary), Pamela Hamilton (Primary) |
| Integrating semiconductor temperature monitoring | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), SensArray Corp. | |
| Intuitive data extraction | Quantapoint Inc | Eric Hoffman (Primary), Fred Persi (Primary) |
| Is the air safe? | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| It's plasma, revolutioned | Imaging Systems Technology | |
| Large view otoscope | Welch Allyn | |
| Lighting up nano-scale materials | Aetos Technologies Inc., Auburn University | Bronwen Murray (Primary), Chuck T. Ludwig (Primary), C. Michael Moriarty (Primary), Oleg M. Pustovyy (Primary), Alexei A. Samoylov (Primary), Thomas Hasling (Primary), Vitaly Vodyanoy (Primary) |
| Lightweight tooling heats up | Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Scion Industries, LLC | |
| Low power electrical characterization | Keithley Instruments Inc | |
| Lower energy energy sources | Gencor International | |
| Making the friendly skies friendlier | Mitsubishi Electric Corporation | |
| Mass spec made easy | JEOL USA Inc, EAI Corp. | Robert Cody (Primary), James Laramee (Primary) |
| Measuring net power in welding | Alion Science & Technology | Valdemar Malin (Primary) |
| Miniaturizing sensors | Balluff GmbH | Manfred Jagiella (Primary), Sorin Fericean (Primary) |
| Modeling marvel | Genomatica, Inc. | |
| Multi-spectra in-vivo imaging | Cambridge Research and Instrumentation, Inc. | |
| Nanosponges speed semiconductor devices | Sinmat, University of Florida, Gainesville | Rajiv Singh (Primary), Deepika Singh (Primary), Marie-Beatrice Dufourg (Primary) |
| New tool for nm precision | Advanced Production Systems Development Co., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. | Youichi Nakamura (Primary), Hiroyuki Takeuchi (Primary) |
| Next-generation polymers | The Dow Chemical Company | |
| No need to swap | Oxford Diffraction Inc., Oxford Diffraction Ltd | |
| One small step for neuroscience | Cellular Bioengineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Optimizing silicon processing | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Sinton Consulting Inc. | |
| Preventing aviation accidents | Pacific Northwest Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), NASA (Ames Research Center), Battelle Memorial Institute, Flight Safety Consultants, ProWorks Corp. | |
| Probability and outcome | Southwest Research Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), NASA (Glenn Research Center) | |
| Radiation detection at 60 MPH | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Innovative Survivability Technologies | Daniel Archer (Primary) |
| Regulating the grid | American Superconductor, Tennessee Valley Authority | |
| Replacing electrophoresis | Agilent Technologies Inc | |
| Restoring nerve functionality | Advanced Bionics Corp, Alfred Mann Foundation, Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Quallion LLC, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Organosilicon Research Center) | |
| Resurrecting audio | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Carl Haber (Primary), Vitaliy Fadeyev (Primary) |
| Revitalizing fossil fuel reserves | Advanced Composite Products and Technology Inc | |
| Revolutionary joystick | Engineering Matters Inc | |
| Revolutionizing safety barriers | Battelle, C.U.E. Inc. | |
| Saving energy | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), New York State Energy R&D Authority, Performance Systems Development, Taitem Engineering | |
| Sensitive and consistent | ESA Biosceinces Inc, TSI Inc. | |
| Signs of seizure | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Simplifying hydrogenation | Thales Nanotechnology Inc | Ferenc Darvas (Primary), Lajos Godorhazy (Primary), Ferenc Boncz (Primary), Daniel Szalay (Primary) |
| Simplifying sample preparation | Atmospheric Glow Technologies | |
| Smaller and better detectors | Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Kansas State University | |
| Spectroscopy designed for processes | Axsun Technologies | Dale Flanders (Primary), Walid Atia (Primary), Mark Kuznetsov (Primary) |
| Super computing | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Testing drug-protein affinities | Caldera Pharmaceuticals, Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Benjamin Warner (Primary), George Havrilla (Primary) |
| Tracking a potential pandemic | Isis Pharmaceuticals (Ibis Div.), SAIC | |
| Transferring CNT properties | Zyvex Corp. | |
| Transforming composite processing | Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd | |
| Transitioning to optical fiber | Xponent Photonics | |
| Underground mapping | Stolar Research Corporation | |
| Visualizing terabytes of data | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| What a Know-itAll | Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Informatic Div.) | |
| Wide-angle sample coverage | Nikon Instruments Inc. |