Federal Labs Bring Home Numerous R&D 100 Awards
The FLC is excited to congratulate federal laboratories that received honors from the 2022 R&D 100 Awards. This worldwide competition recognizes new commercial products, technologies and materials for their significant innovations.
The R&D 100 Awards include six categories and four special recognition categories. Innovations can be entered into both regular and special recognition categories.
The federal lab wins included collaborations between laboratories, agencies, and/or with industry, academic and nonprofit partners.
Analytical/Test category
Spectral Phenotyping with MirroRx - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
IT/Electrical category
Additively Manufactured Tamper Evident Container - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hydra I/O: A system for highly resilient inter-chip communications - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
K-Modules: Capacitive Energy Modules for Pulsed Power Applications - Los Alamos National Laboratory
LightSlingers: Antennas that generate radio waves from faster-than-light currents - Los Alamos National Laboratory
SOFIA: Spectrometer Optimized for Facility Integrated Applications - Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Colorado – Boulder
Mechanical/Materials category
Embedded Microjet Cooling for High-Power Electronics - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
ASSESS: Acoustic Steady-State Excitation Spatial Spectroscopy - Los Alamos National Laboratory
BioManIAC: Bioplastics Manufacturing with Intelligent Adaptive Control - Los Alamos National Laboratory
DuAlumin-3D: An Additively Manufactured Dual-Strengthened Aluminum Alloy Designed for Extreme Creep and Fatigue Resistance - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, General Motors, Beehive3D
Multifunctional, 3D-Printable Inks for Energy Products (Energy Inks) - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, MilliporeSigma, a division of Merck KGaA
PGM-free OER Catalyst as Replacement of Iridium for PEM Water Electrolyzer - Argonne National Laboratory
Quick-Release™ Binder for Recyclable Batteries - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
OnTo Technology
Solar Fuel Generator Including a Catalytic Mesh - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stable and High-Performing Single-Crystal LiNixMnyCo1-x-yO2 Cathode Materials (SC-NMC) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ultra-Stable Thermally Excellent Advancements in Material Strength (USTEAMS) - Sandia National Laboratories
Ultraclean Condensing Gas Furnace - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Toroidal Propeller - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Other category
32 Tesla Superconducting Magnet - National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University
Process/Prototyping category
Electrochemical Leach (EC-Leach) - Idaho National Laboratory
High Energy, Low Dispersion (HELD) Multilayer Dielectric (MLD) Gratings - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Iron Nitride Soft Magnetics - Sandia National Laboratories, University of California, Irvine
RapidCure: High-Speed Electron Beam Processing of Battery Electrodes - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tailored Glass Using Direct Ink Writing Technology - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
TROPICS Pathfinder Satellite- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NASA Blue Canyon Technologies
Software/Services category
Airborne Collision Avoidance System for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Federal Aviation Administration, MITRE, and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
ALArM: Acoustic Large-Area Monitoring - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chevron USA Inc., Evident Scientific
Automated Threat Estimator for Networks and Applications (ATHENA) - Sandia National Laboratories
City Buildings, Energy, and Sustainability (CityBES) Web Tool for Climate Change Strategies - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
EpiGrid: A user-friendly tool for epidemiological decision making - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Flash-X, a Multiphysics Simulation Software - Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Michigan State University; University of Chicago; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Riken Center for Computational Science, Japan
Gremlin: Discovering Weaknesses in Artificial Intelligence - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
GridEye: A Wide-Area Power Grid Real-Time Situational Awareness System - University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Health Analysis and Research for Public Events Tool (HARPE) - Argonne National Laboratory
Machine Intelligence for Review and Analysis of Condition Logs and Entries (MIRACLE) - Idaho National Laboratory
MOSAICS: Bringing the Future of Industrial Cybersecurity Into Focus - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Idaho National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
On-Chip Neuromorphic Backpropagation Algorithm - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Proactive Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System (PIDMS) - Sandia National Laboratories
SolidPAC: A Comprehensive Solid-State Battery Design Tool - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Battery Performance and Cost (BatPaC) Model - Argonne National Laboratory
The SEED Platform: Decarbonizing Cities Through Robust Data Management - National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Special Recognition: Battling COVID-19
SILVER
EpiGrid: A user-friendly tool for epidemiological decision making - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Special Recognition: Corporate Social Responsibility
BRONZE
LightSlingers: Antennas that generate radio waves from faster-than-light currents - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Special Recognition: Green Tech
GOLD
LightSlingers: Antennas that generate radio waves from faster-than-light currents - Los Alamos National Laboratory
SILVER
RapidCure: High-Speed Electron Beam Processing of Battery Electrodes - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Special Recognition: Market Disruptor – Products
SILVER
Proactive Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System (PIDMS) - Sandia National Laboratories
BRONZE
ALArM: Acoustic Large-Area Monitoring - Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chevron USA Inc., Evident Scientific
Special Recognition: Market Disruptor – Services
BRONZE
BioManIAC: Bioplastics Manufacturing with Intelligent Adaptive Control - Los Alamos National Laboratory