Researchers from around the world offer the year’s best innovations at the forefront of technology.
The editors of R&D Magazine are proud to announce the winners of the 45th Annual R&D 100 Awards. This annual competition recognizes the best in innovation—on a global scale. Indeed, the products and technologies highlighted on the following pages are among the most innovative ideas from today’s technology powerhouses in academia, government, and industry, worldwide.
Selection of R&D 100 winners is a sophisticated process, lasting nearly a full year and involving a judging panel of almost 50 independent technical experts who lend their expertise in evaluating the details of the product entries compared to other existing products and technologies.
This year’s winners will be honored at a Black Tie Awards Gala in the Grand Ballroom of Chicago’s Navy Pier on Oct. 18. This event is in conjunction with a public exhibition showcasing a sample of this year’s winning technologies.
From analytical instruments to thin-film technology, to environmental sciences to process technologies, the winners of the 2007 R&D 100 Awards will have a definitive impact in research, industry, and daily life.We honor these products and recognize the development teams that have made these technologies possible.
We invite you to join this elite group of scientists and engineers in the 2008 R&D 100 Awards Competition—it’s never too early to enter. Visit www.rdmag.com for details and to see the more than 6,000 winning organizations from the past 45 years. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners!
—The Editors of R&D Magazine To view a full archive of past R&D 100 winners, visit: www.rdmag.com/rd100ach
