R&D 100 Award winners by year

Awards

Argonne's R&D 100 Awards, 1964-2007

(99 awards total)

To report errors or omissions, contact Cynthia Wesolowski.

Note: Divisions are referred to by their current names. Where the evolution of a division is uncertain, the current affiliation of the principal investigator is the determinant. Links to division web sites are provided at the first occurrence of the division name.

Year	Div.^a	Funding Source^b	Technology	Researcher(s)
2007	MCS	DOE, Office of Science, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health	Access Grid™ Release 3.0: Group Collaboration Software	Michael Papka, Ivan R. Judson, Susanne Lefvert, Eric C. Olson, Rick Stevens, Thomas D. Uram
2007	NE	DOE, National Institutes of Health, Biomedical Imaging Technology	Ultra-High -Resolution Mammography System	Jacqueline Anne Johnson, Stefan Schweizer, Anthony R. Lubinsky
2007	NE	DOE, National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Nonproliferation Research and Development, DOD, Air Force and Defense Intelligence Agency	Passive Millimeter-Wave Spectrometer for Remote Chemical Detection	Nachappa Gopalsami, Sasan Bakhtiari, Apostolos Raptis, Thomas W. Elmer
2006	MSD	DOE, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, State of Illinois, Makel Engineering, Edison Materials Technology Center	Ultrafast, Ultrasensitive Nanostructured Hydrogen Sensor	Michael Zach, Tao Xu, Zhili Xiao
2006	ET	DOE, EE-ITP	Multiport Dryer Technology for the Forest Products Industry	Steve Choi, Ralph Niemann, (Argonne), D. M. France, (Argonne, STA/Uof I) G. L. Timm, G. I. Wedel, (Kadant Johnson)
2006	ET	DOE, EE-ITP	Materials Resistant to Metal Dusting Degradation	Krishnamurti (Ken) Natesan, Zuotao Zeng
2006	ES	DOE, Biomass Program and Archer Daniels Midland	Separative Bioreactor for the Production and Recovery of Biobased Products	Seth Snyder, YuPo Lin, Michael Henry, Michelle Arora, Edward St. Martin, Jamie A. Hestekin, James Frank, (Argonne) Thomas Binder, Rishi Skukla, K. N. Mani, Ahmad Hilaly, Wuli Bao, William Ellis, (ADM)
2006	APS/XFD	DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences and Creative MicroTech	Anti-scatter Grids for X-ray Imaging and Collimators for Nuclear Imaging Made by LIGA	Derrick Mancini, Ralu Divan, Judi Yaeger ,Nicolaie Moldovan (Argonne) Olga Makarova, Guohua Yang, Cha-Mei Tang, (Creative MicroTech, Inc.) Vladislav Zyryanov, (IIT) ,
2005	MCS	DOE,Office of Advanced Scientific Comuting, Computer Science Research Program, DOE, NNS	MPICH2 Release 1.0: High Performance, Portable Implementation of the Message Passing Interface Standard for Parallel Computing	William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, Robert Ross, Rajeef Thakur,Brian Toonen
2005	XFD	SC/BES	Multilayer Lens Wafers for X-Ray Lenses	Chian Liu, Raymond Conley, Albert Macrander
2005	CMT	Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards, Advanced Technology Development Program	Self-Contained Battery-Powered bion® Microstimulator with Rechargeable Miniature Battery	Khalil Amine, Bookeum Oh, Ilias Belharouak, Qingzheng Wang, Donald Vissers, (joint award with Advanced Bionics Corporation, Quallion, LLC and the University of Wisconsin)
2005	ET	Office of FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies	High-Temperature Potentiometric Oxygen Sensor with Internal Reference	Jules Routbort, Dileep Singh, (joint entry with The Ohio State University)
2004	ET	NETL, National Petroleum Technolgy Office	Grancrete™ Spray-On Cement and Rapid Construction Process for Low-Cost Housing	Arun Wagh, (joint entry with Casa Grande, Intl. LLC, Jim Paul
2004	ET	OFE/NETL/GTP	Hydrogen Transport Membrane (HTM) for Separation of Pure Hydrogen at High Temperatures	(Argonne) Uthamilingam Balachandran, Steve Dorris, Tae H. Lee, (NETL/DOE) Gary J. Stiegel, Richard Dunst, John Winslow
2004	ES	DOE/EERE's Office of FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies	Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit (PSAT) V5.2	Aymeric Rousseau, Phillip Sharer, Sylvain Pagerit
2004	ES	EE/ITP	Glass Furnace Model (GFM)	Shen Lin Chang, Brian Golchert, Steve Lottes, Michael Petrick, Chenn Qian Zhou
2003	ET	DOE/EE/OIT/IMFP	Nanostructured Carbide Derived Carbon (CDC)	Ali Erdemir, (Argonne) Michael J. McNallan, (UIC) John W. Ball, (Chicago-Allis Manufacturing Corporation) Yuri Gogotsi, (Drexel University)
2003	MSD	DOE/SC/BES/MSE	Scanning Confocal Electron Microscope	Nestor Zaluzec
2003	MSD	DOE/SC/BES/MSE	Large-Area Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Films and Deposition System	Dieter Gruen, Orlando Auciello, John Carlisle
2002	ES	DOE/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, General Atomics Corporation, San Diego, CA	Smart Sensor Developer Kit	Michael Vogt, Laura Skubal, Erika Shoemaker (formerly ES) (joint entry with General Atomics Corporation)
2002	ES	EERE/OIT/CP&AP	Advanced Electrodeionization Technology for Product Desalting	Michael Henry, Paula Moon, YuPo Lin, Carl Landahl, James Frank, Seth Snyder
2002	MCS	OMICS	Globus Toolkit™ Release 2.0*	Ian Foster, Steve Tuecke, Joseph Bester, Joseph Insley, Eric Blau, Joseph Link, John Bresnahan, Stuart Martin, Lee Liming
2001	CMT	EERE/OTT/OAAT	Argonne Autothermal Reforming Catalyst for Fuel Processors	Michael Krumpelt, Shabbir Ahmed, Romesh Kumar, John Kopasz, Joong-Myeon Bae, John David Carter
2000	APS/XFD	SC/BES	Hard X-ray Scanning Microprobe	Barry Lai, Zhonghou Cai, Jörg Maser, Dan Legnini, and Peter Ilinski; Wenbing Yun, LBL
2000	ECT	SC/OBER, NIH	Large-Area CCD Dector	Istvan Naday, Edwin M. Westbrook, Director, formerly of BIO, Mike Strauss, formerly Electronics Division (now ECT), retired
2000	ES	EE/OIT	Process to Recover and Clean Flexible Polyurethane Foam from Automobile Shredder Residue	Bassam Jody, Edward Daniels, and Joseph Libera
1999	ES	SC-LTR	Argonne Clean-Diesel Technology	Ramesh Poola, Raj Sekar
1999	CHM	SC-BES	Gregar Extractor	Joe Gregar, Ken Anderson
1998	ET	LDRD, EE-OTT	Near Frictionless Carbon (material slicker than teflon)	Ali Erdemir, George Fenske, and Osman Eryilmaz
1998	RA, RE (RA and RE now are RAE)	SC-LTR, NE-OST	PRODIAG software for customized diagnostic systems for continuous thermal-hydraulic processes	Jacques Reifman and Tom Wei
1998	RA	LDRD, NE-OST	MSET/SPRT Advanced Software for Process and Signal Surveillance	Kenny Gross, Stephan Wegerich, and Ralph Singer
1997	ER, ES	EE-OIT	Production of Chemicals from Biologically Derived Succinic Acid (BDSA)	Shih-Perng Tsai, Mark Donnelly, May Wu, Cynthia Millard (joint entry with ORNL, NREL, PNNL and Applied Carbochemicals)
1997	CHM, MSD	SC-LTR	Mass Spectroscopy of Recoiled Ion (MSRI) Analyzer	Vincent Smentkowski, Alan Krauss, Dieter Gruen
1996	ET	LDRD, EM-OST, SC-LTR, EM-30	CERAMICRETE--Phosphate Ceramic Binder	Dileep Singh, Arun Wagh
1996	ER, CMT	EM-OST	Empore Rad Disks	Mitchell Erickson, Kent Orlandini, Lesa Smith (joint entry with 3M, and IBC Advanced Technologies)
1996	MSD	SC-LTR, DP-NIS-IPP, ER-BES, NSF	MFIS--Magnetic Flux Imaging System	Ulrich Welp, George Crabtree, V. I. Nikitenko, V. K. Vlasko-Vlasov (Joint entry with Phase Metrics and Institute for Solid State Physics)
1996	ET	ER-LTR	Millimeter Wave Imaging	Nachappa Gopalsami, Apostolos Raptis, S. Bakhtiari, Kaveh Razazian
1996	CHM	ER-AEP	Photorefractive Liquid Crystal (PLC) Optical Processor	Gary Wiederrecht, Michael Wasielewski
1995	ET	FE-FETC, ER-LTR	CEMROX--Ceramic Membrane Reactor for Oxidation of Natural Gas	U. Balachanddran, Joseph Dusek, P.S. Maiya, Rodney Mieville, (Argonne) M. S. Kleefisch, C. A. Udovich (Amoco); A. C. Bose (FE/PETC)
1994	ET	FE-FETC, ER-BES	Ultrasonic Viscometer	Shuh-Haw Sheen, Hual-Te Chien, Apostolos Raptis
1994	CMT	ER-BES-chemical sciences	Toroid Cavity Imager	Klaus Woelk, Jerome Rathke, Robert Klingler
1994	CHM	ER-BES-chemical sciences	Diphonix Ion Exchange Resin	E. Philip Horwitz
1993	CMT-ETP	EE-OTT	Ceramic Sulfide Materials	Tom Kaun, Kevin M. Myles, Gary Henriksen, Daniel Simon
1993	CHM	ER-AEP	DAD Molecular Switch-Type P3	Michael Wasielewski, David Gosztola
1993	ET, CMT	EE	An Efficient New Process for Commercial Production of Phase-Pure Superconductors	U. Balachandran, Roger Poeppel, James Emerson, Stanley Johnson
1992	TD, MSD	FPP	Helium Self-Pumping Module for Fusion Application	Jeffrey Brooks, Alan Krauss, Richard Nygren; (joint award with Sandia National Laboratory)
1991	CMT	NE	Electrorefining Process for Recovery of Transuranics from Spent Nuclear Fuel	Bill Miller, Eddie Gay, John Ackerman, Robert Steunenberg, Zygmunt Tomczuk, Ray Wolson
1991	CHM	ER-BES-chemical sciences	New Extraction Chromatographic Materials for the Separation & Preconcentration of Radionuclides from Biological & Environmental Samples & from Radioactive Waste Solutions	Phil Horwitz, Mark Dietz
1991	ET	EE	Boric Acid Lubricant	Ali Erdemir
1991	CMT-ETP	EE-OTT	Bipolar Li/FeS₂ Battery, the Mark III	Tom Kaun
1990	BIO	ER-OBER	Blood Cadmium/Assay Kit	Maryka Bhattacharrya, Dave Peterson, Bill Lohff
1989	CMT	ER-BES, USEPA, NASA	Infrared Aerosol Analyzer	Stanley Johnson, Romesh Kumar, Gerald Reedy
1989	ES	EE-OIT	Binder-Enhanced Densified Refuse-Derived Fuel Pellets	Oscar Ohlsson, William Schertz, Kenneth Daugherty, Barney Venables, (University of N. Texas)
1989	CHM	ER-OBER, NIH	Radium-224 Generator	Robert Atcher, John Hines, Arnold Friedman
1988	MSD	ER	3He/4He Dilution Refrigerator	Kenneth Gray, Pat Roach
1988	ET, MSD	LDRD	Neutron Stress Monitor for Composite Constituents	David Kupperman, Saurin Majamdar, J P Singh (MCT) Richard Hitterman, John Faber (MSD) Stewart MacEwen (Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (Canada))
1988	CMT	ER-BES	pH Sensor for High-Temperature/High Pressure Aqueous Environments	Zoltan Nagy, Robert Yonco
1988	CHM	ER	FT-EPR Spectrometer	Michael Bowman, James Norris
1988	CHM	ER	LP-SPEC Software	Jau-Huel Tang, James Norris
1987	ET	ER, American Iron & Steel Institute	High-Temperature Ultrasonic Flaw Detector	David Kupperman (Joint award with American Iron and Steel Institute; National Bureau of Standards; Magnaflux Corp.)
1987	CMT-ETP	EE-OTT	Micro Membrane-Electrode Sensor	Laszlo Redey, Ira Bloom
1987	MSD, IPNS	ER	Polarized Neutron Reflectometer	Gian Felcher, Russ O. Hilleke, R. Kent Crawford, Joe Haumann, Robert Kleb, George Ostrowski.
1987	CHM	ER	Pulse Squeezer	G. G. Mavrogenes, Charles Jonah, et al.
1987	CHM	ER-BES-chemical sciences, Westinghouse Hanford	TRUEX (Transuranium Extraction) Process	Phil Horwitz (joint award with Rockwell-Hanford)
1987	MSD, CHM	ER	Surface Analysis by Resonance Ionization of Sputtered Atoms	Dieter Gruen, Michael Pellen, Charles Young, Wallis Calaway
1985	CMT	ER-BES-material sciences	Pyroelectrochemical Extraction Process	V. Maroni, S. Von Winbush, R. Yonco
1985	TD, ET	NE	Low-enrichment Nuclear Reactor Fuel	A. Travelli, James Snelgrove, James Matos, Henry Thresh, Thomas Wiencek Robert Domagala, Donald Schmitt, Frank Karasek, Clarence Steves, John Zic, Austin Dwight, Gerald Hofman, Lawrence Neimark, Dennis Donahue, Henry Lautermilch, Chester Gebo, Joseph Florek and Michael Billone.
1985	ECT	ER	Ultra-Sensitive Radionuclide x-/Gamma Ray Detector	M. Strauss, I. Sherman
1984	ES, ER	U.S. Coast Guard	Chemical Parameter Spectrometer	Joseph Stetter, William Penrose, T. Otagawa, Solomon Zaromb
1984	HEP	ER	Beam Signal Pickup Test Facility	James Simpson
1984	CMB	ER-OBER	Real Time Synchrotron X-ray Small Angle Scattering Instrumentation	Charles Borso
1983	ECT	Unknown	Two Dimensional Position-Sensitive Neutron Scintillation Detector	M. Strauss, R. Brenner
1982	CMT	EE-OTT	Multifunctional Sensor Electrode	D. R. Vissers, L. Redey
1982	CMT-ETP, ECT	FE	Masked Multichannel Scaler	D. G. Ettinger, S. Bourne, M. McGee, A. Winicki
1982	CMB	ER-OBER	Directly Exposed Self-Scanning Photodiode Linear Position-Sensitive X-ray System	Charles S. Borso
1982	TD	ER	3.3-MJ Split-Pair Pulsed Superconducting Coil	S. H. Kim
1981	CMT-ETP	EE-OTT	Electric Vehicle Battery Charger System	William H. DeLuca
1981	ECT	Unknown	Small Sample Calorimeter	R. H. Lewis, R. Perry
1981	CMT	ER	Attenuated Total Internal Reflection Impactor for Aerosol Analysis	Stanley A. Johnson, Paul Cunningham
1980	ET	ER	High Temperature Microphone	Albert. P. Gavin, Thomas Anderson, John Janicek
1979	MSD	ER	Superconducting Transistor	Kenneth E. Gray
1979	TD	FPP, ER	Superconducting Cable	Suk H. Kim, Bert Wang
1978	ET	FE	Superconducting Magnet System	R. Niemann
1978	CMT	ER	Gas Chromatography Cryocollector	G. T. Reedy
1978	CMT	Unknown	Fluidized Bed Coal Combustion Process	A. Jonke, J. Vogel
1977	CMT	EE	Nonimaging solar collector	William Schertz
1977	ECT	Unknown	High Temperature Thin Film Superconducting Quantum Interference Device	Charles M. Falco
1976	CMB	Unknown	Liposome-Encapsulated Drugs	Jady Rahman
1976	CMT	ER	In-Sodium Tritium Meter	Romesh Kumar, Donald Raue, Stanley Skladzien
1976	ARF, CMT	EE	Dielectric Compound Parabollic Concentrator	R. Winston, William Schertz
1974	CMT	Unknown	System for Detecting Water-To-Sodium Leaks from Steam Generators of Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactors	Don Vissers
1974	CMT-ETP	EE-OTT	High-Capacity Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cell	R. Steunenberg
1970	HEP	Unknown	Artificial Kidney	F. W. Markley
1969	HEP	Unknown	Superconducting magnet for 12-foot Bubble Chamber	J. R. Purcell/ E. G. Pewitt
1969	RA	Unknown	Braille Machine	Arnold Grunwald
1968	CMT-ETP	EE-OTT	Lightweight Electrically-Rechargeable Power Cells	H. Shimotake
1965	MSD	Unknown	Neutron Image Intensification System	H. Berger, E.R. Kraske, R. J. Fousek
1964	CHM	Unknown	Portable Fluorescent X-Ray Instrument	John Karttunen

^{* Globus Toolkit 2.0, Ian Foster et al., won the R&D Most Promising New Technology Award in 2002 and
the R&D Innovator of the Year Award in2003.}

^a DIVISIONAL ACRONYMS:

CHM (Chemistry)

CMT(Chemical Technology)

CMT-ETP (Chemical Technology, Electrochemical Technology Program)

ER (Environmental Research)

ES (Energy Systems)

ET (Energy Technology)

HEP (High Energy Physics)

IPNS (Intense Pulsed Neutron Source)

LDRD (Laboratory Director's Research and Development funds; previously called Exploratory Research Funds [ERF] or Program Development Funds [PDF]

MSD (Materials Science)

MCS (Math and Computer Science)

RA (Reactor Analysis)

RE (Reactor Engineering)

XFD (Experimental Facilities Division)

^b SPONSOR ACRONYMS (DOE UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED):

CP-APDARPA (Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

CP&AP (Chemicals Program and Agriculture Program)

EE-OIT(Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Industrial Technologies)

EE-ITP (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Industrial Technologies Program)

EE-OTT/IMFP(Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Transportation Technologies, Industrial Materials of the Future Program)

EM-OST(Environmental Management, Office of Science and Technology)

FE-FETC(Fossil Energy, Federal Energy Technology Center)

FPP (Fusion Power Program)

IPP (Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention Program, formerly known as Defense Programs, Newly Independent States-Industrial Partnering Program, or DP-NIS-IPP)

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

NNS, National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Advanced Simulation and Computing, Simulation and Computer Science Subprogram

NIH (National Institutes of Health)

NSF (National Science Foundation)

NE-OST(Nuclear Energy, Office of Science and Technology)

OBER (Office of Science [formerly Energy Research], Office of Biological and Environmental Research

OFE/NETL/GTP (Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Gasification Program)

OMICS (Office of Mathematical, Information and Computational Science)

SC-AEP (Office of Science [formerly Energy Research], Advanced Energy Projects)

SC-BES (Office of Science [formerly Energy Research], Basic Energy Sciences)

SC-LTR (Office of Science [formerly Energy Research], Laboratory Technology Research Program

SC-OBER (Office of Science [formerly Energy Research], Office of Biological and Environmental Research)

SC-BES-MSE (Office of Science [formerly Energy Research], Basic Energy Sciences), Materials Sciences and Engineering

USEPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)