R&D 100

Still interested in entering the 2026 R&D 100 Awards this year? The final deadline to submit nominations for the 2026 R&D 100 Awards is 11:59 p.m. Friday, June 5, 2026, Eastern (New York City) time. Entries submitted by the final deadline carry a submission fee of $595. The R&D 100 Awards recognize new commercial products,…

The 2026 R&D 100 Awards are now accepting submissions as of today, March 4th. Click here — or on the image at right — to download a PDF of the Call for Nominations. This year’s competition is the 64th, extending the long, proud history of the awards competition. The R&D 100 Awards is the only…

The official Call for Nominations for the 2026 R&D 100 Awards has been released. Click here — or on the image at right — to download a PDF of the Call for Nominations. This year’s competition, the 64th, will open for submissions on March 4th, 2026. The R&D 100 Awards is the only science and…

General Motors’ battery team, led by Director of Battery R&D George Cintra, walked away from the 2025 R&D 100 Awards with two battery-related honors as part of GM’s broader haul of four R&D 100 Awards. At the gala, Cintra described the ultra-fast charger, the GM XFC Cell, as a step toward EV charging that feels…

Richard Tapper, an Associate Research Specialist at Dow who develops and tests fire-retardant wire and cable formulations, accepted the 2025 R&D Technician of the Year award at the R&D 100 Awards gala in Scottsdale, Arizona. Tapper’s work spans household wiring to grid-scale solar infrastructure, where he pushes halogen-free polymer composites through increasingly stringent burn tests.…

Thomas Lograsso, director of the Critical Materials Innovation Hub at Ames National Laboratory, accepted the 2025 R&D Leader of the Year award with a speech that emphasized collaboration and investing in the next generation. “Science thrives on openness and collaboration,” Lograsso said. “We must continue to invest in research, share knowledge freely, and empower the…

Regenity Biosciences is tackling a long-overlooked challenge in orthopedic medicine. In this R&D 100 Award-winning interview, Natsuyo Shishido Lee (Director of R&D) and Chris Harris (Senior Integration Engineer) discuss RejuvaKnee—a purified, intact bovine meniscus implant made entirely of collagen, designed for segmental defects after partial meniscectomy. With no durable standard of care for years, the…

Thermo Fisher Scientific earned three 2025 R&D 100 Awards in the Analytical/Test category: the Stellar Mass Spectrometer, the KingFisher PlasmidPro Maxi Processor, and the SteriSEQ Rapid Sterility Testing Kit. According to Thermo Fisher, the Stellar Mass Spectrometer delivers 10x greater sensitivity while analyzing five times more compounds than traditional systems. The KingFisher PlasmidPro Maxi Processor…

Filmed at the 63rd R&D 100 Awards in Scottsdale, Arizona, this quick interview spotlights the team behind the Energy Storing and Efficient Air Conditioner (ESEAC), an R&D 100 Award winning approach to commercial cooling that builds energy storage directly into the HVAC system. ESEAC was developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is…

Winner of an R&D 100 Award, the Universal GridEdge Analyzer (UGA) is a portable, high-speed device built to help utilities see what’s happening on the power grid in real time. Designed to move from site to site, UGA can “listen” to electrical waveforms on feeders serving neighborhoods and major loads, including solar, EV chargers, and…

Savannah River National Laboratory was awarded an R&D 100 Award for its advanced engineered cellular magmatics technology, a progression of traditional foam glass technology that can be tailored to suit a variety of applications, including: wastewater filtration, supplemental cementitious materials and biological delivery systems. Advanced engineered cellular magmatics (AECMs) are a material family that can…

Qnity’s UV 26GNF photoresist took home a 2025 R&D 100 Award in the Mechanical/Materials category for delivering what the semiconductor industry thought was still years away: a non-fluorine lithography material that actually improves performance. In this interview, Randal King, Qnity’s Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, explains how a team of about 30 scientists accomplished in…

DuPont took home three 2025 R&D 100 Awards in the Mechanical/Materials category, one of the strongest showings for a commercial entity at the gala. At the awards ceremony, R&D World caught up with Khyati Vyas (technical lead, Tychem Garments), Allie Fletcher (end-use marketing lead, DuPont Personal Protection) and Caleb Funk (R&D laureate, DuPont Water Solutions)…

DuPont’s Tychem 6000 SFR garment (pictured) earned an R&D 100 Award for solving a longstanding trade-off in protective clothing: chemical resistance versus flame protection. Previously, workers in oil and gas, petrochemical and chemical manufacturing had to choose one or the other, or layer garments and deal with significant heat stress. The Tychem 6000 SFR provides…

Hip fractures remain one of the most serious consequences of falls among older adults, often triggering a cascade of mobility loss and health complications. Researchers at Hong Kong’s Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI) developed NuHip to address both the protection gap and the comfort barriers that have limited adoption of traditional hip protectors. NuHip…

Rare earths are everywhere in the news. The technology to turn them into usable alloys? That’s been stuck in the 19th century: energy-intensive, emissions-heavy and dependent on hazardous fluoride salts. Gadolyn’s D-DIRECT platform takes a different approach: single-pass oxide reduction, no carbon-based reductants, water as the byproduct. The 2025 R&D 100 Award recognizes what that…

PHC Corporation of North America’s LiCellMo live cell metabolic analyzer earned a 2025 R&D 100 Award for its ability to continuously monitor cellular metabolism in real time. At the R&D 100 gala in Scottsdale, I had the chance to speak with Derek Sokolowski, Project Manager for Cell Culture at PHC Corporation of North America, about…

As climate change pushes disease-carrying mosquitoes and ticks into new territories, public health officials face a challenge: how do you prepare for outbreaks in places that have never seen them? Los Alamos National Laboratory developed the EpiEarth platform, which earned a Gold Medal Special Recognition Award for Corporate Social Responsibility. “Most models before this focused…

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Stanford University say they have built a two-photon lithography system that could push 3D nanofabrication toward manufacturing scale, boosting throughput by more than 1,000 times compared with commercial tools while maintaining minimum feature sizes of 113 nanometers. Two-photon lithography uses ultrafast laser pulses to harden material only at…

The 2025 R&D 100 Awards Gala was a celebration of the people and teams behind this year’s most impactful innovations. Winning an R&D 100 Award is a significant milestone for researchers and engineers, and the evening reflected the pride, dedication, and creativity that drive scientific progress. We were honored to recognize breakthroughs from individuals and…

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratory won an R&D 100 award for their project “Bleeding Materials and Enclosures,” a tamper-indicating container made of colorful water beads sealed with epoxy, creating an enclosure. Upon contact with oxygen, the beads turn black in an irreversible chemical reaction, indicating that someone tampered with the enclosure. The project was designed…

Scientists from The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) have developed a method to turn fruit and beverage waste into a leather-like material and a biocellulose (BC) fiber that can be used for textiles. Saving the environment The team was inspired by the environmental effects of traditional cellulose fibers. Cotton, for example,…

The 3 mm Multi-Nuclear Inverse (MNI) CryoProbe is a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) detector “combining the highest sensitivity and versatility,” according to the R&D 100 2025 team at Bruker who developed it.  The Ultra-Sensitive 3 mm MNI CryoProbe Scientists working in discovery and development were having difficulties characterizing lead compounds and their related substances considering…

Among the winners of the R&D 100 in 2025 is Abbott’s Liberta RC DBS System, a deep brain stimulation device for treating Parkinson’s disease, the second-most common neurodegenerative disorder in the U.S., with approximately 500,000 Americans suffering from the disease. Some experts estimate that, due to underdiagnosis, the number may be closer to one million.…

Axalta Coating Systems’ new Fast Cure Low Energy Collision Repair Paint system won an R&D 100 Award this year in the Mechanical/Materials category. The new system, a surfacer and clearcoat for repainting damaged vehicles, reduces energy consumption by up to 49% and cuts cycle times by 50% compared to conventional systems, according to Axalta. This…