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R&D Magazine
2008
R&D 100 Winners
The 2008 R&D 100 Award Winners are listed below in alphabetical order by the name of the primary developer company.
| Primary Developer | 2008 R&D 100 Winning Technology (Category) | Co-developers/Contributors |
| Absolute Nano | SabreTube Desktop Thermal Processing System (Process Sciences) | |
| Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. | Rumble and Screech Spatial Mapping Analyzer Tool (RASSMAT) (Safety and Security) | AEDC Air Force SBIR Program Aerospace Testing Alliance |
| Analytical Instrument Systems, Inc. | AIS ISEA III In-situ electrochemical analyzer (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Anasys Instruments | VESTA (Analytical Instruments) | University of Illinois |
| Applied Magnetics Lab Inc. | InfoStroyer 301 (Safety and Security) | |
| Argonne National Laboratory | EnerDel/Argonne Advanced High-Power Battery for Hybrid Electric Vehicles (Energy Technologies) | EnerDel |
| Argonne National Laboratory | UNCD Mechanical Seals (Mechanical Devices) | Advanced Diamond Technologies John Crane, Inc. |
| Ashburn Hill Corp. | NuGard First Response Protective Clothing (Safety and Security) | Fire Protection & More |
| Aspex Corp. | JEMM Xtreme (Imaging Technologies) | |
| ATMI | AutoClean (Thin Film/Vacuum Technologies) | |
| Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC | SIMWyPES (Safety and Security) | |
| Battelle | F-LLX: Flotation-Liquid Liquid Extraction (Process Sciences) | |
| Battelle | Bio-based Powder Coating Technology (Process Sciences) | Hexion Specialty Chemicals Ohio Soybean Council John Deere United Soybean Board |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | Battelle-RDF: Environmentally Benign and Reduced Corrosion Runway Deicing Fluid (Safety and Security) | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center |
| Bruker | 600 MHz 1.7 mm TCI Micro-CryoProbe with Z-Gradient (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Bruker | SMART X2S (Beam Instruments) | |
| Bruker | 9.4T MRI Mouse Brain Quadrature Cryoprobe (Imaging Technologies) | |
| C Technologies, Inc. | SoloVPE -- Variable Pathlength Extension (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Carl Zeiss SMT | ZEISS ORION Helium Ion Microscope (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Colorado State Univ. | EUVM-1 (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Corning, Inc. | Corning ClearCurve Optical Fiber (Communication Technologies) | |
| Cummins, Inc. | SpaciMS: Spatially Resolved Capillary Inlet Mass Spectrometer (Analytical Instruments) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory Queen's Univ. Belfast Hiden Analytical Y12 National Security Complex |
| Dialogic Corp. | Dialogic Multimedia Platform for AdvancedTCA (Communication Technologies) | |
| DuPont Crop Protection | Rynaxypry Insecticide (Life Sciences) | |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | easypod (Life Sciences) | |
| Endress+Hauser Conducta | Middle-Infrared (MIR) Spectrometer (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Engineering Matters, Inc. | Fully Flexible Electromagnetic Valve Actuator (Mechanical Devices) | Corcoran Engineering DMF Associates Pasch Engineering |
| ENTEK Membranes LLC | Xscape Membranes (Materials Sciences) | |
| Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | Harmonic Focus Curved Shear with Harmonic Blue Hand Piece (Life Sciences) | |
| Fluxion Biosciences | BioFlux 200 System (Life Sciences) | |
| Formulatrix, Inc. | Formulator (Life Sciences) | |
| GMZ Energy Inc. | High Performance Thermoelectric Materials (Materials Sciences) | Boston College Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Hinds Instruments, Inc. | 2-MGEM, Optical Anisotropy Factor Measurement System (Imaging Technologies) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Idaho National Laboratory | Antibody Profiling Indentification -- AbP ID (Life Sciences) | Identity Sciences Gordon Lassahn |
| Imago Scientific Instruments Corp. | LEAP 3000X HR (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Industrial Technology Research Institute | ITRI On-Chip AC LED Lighting Technology (Electrical Devices) | |
| Intel Corp. | Intel 45nm High-k Metal Gate Transistor Technology (Thin Film/Vacuum Technologies) | |
| Intermolecular | Tempus High-Productivity Combinatorial R&D Workflow (Thin Film/Vacuum Technologies) | Loomis Group |
| Iowa State Univ., Fungal Res. Group | MycoMax (Energy Technologies) | MycoInnovations |
| Keithley Instruments, Inc. | 4x4 MIMO RF Test System (Electronic Instrumentation) | |
| Key Safety Systems, Inc. | Adaptive Airbag (Safety and Security) | |
| Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | LED Headlamp (Electrical Devices) | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Berkeley Lab PhyloChip (Life Sciences) | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | FastBit Bitmap Index (Software) | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Biomimetic Search Engine (Software) | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Nanostructured Polymer Electrolyte for rechargeable Lithium Batteries (Energy Technologies) | Seeo Inc. |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | SecureBox: National Security Through Secure Cargo (Safety and Security) | National Infrastructure Inst. Secure Box Corp. U.S. Coast Guard |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope (Imaging Technologies) | JEOL |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Autonomous Alignment Process for Laser Fusion Systems (AAPLF) (Lasers and Photonics) | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | 3D Tracking Microscope (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | Laser-Weave (Process Sciences) | |
| ManTech SRS Technologies | CORIN, Colorless Organic Inorganic Nanocomposite, XLS (Materials Sciences) | |
| Materials & Electrochemical Research Corp. | Meltless Formed Alloy Metal Powder (Materials Sciences) | |
| Milliken & Co. | Millad NX8000 (Materials Sciences) | |
| Monsanto Company | YieldGard VT Triple (Life Sciences) | |
| NASA Glenn Research Center | Multidimensional Contact Angle Measurement Device (MCAMD) (Lab Equipment) | Ohio Aerospace Institute |
| NASA Glenn Research Center | Simultaneous Non-Contact Precision Imaging of Microstructural and Thickness Variation in Dielectric Materials (Imaging Technologies) | Lockheed Martin Space Systems |
| NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Sensor Web 2.0 (Software) | SeeqPod Inc. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab George Mason Univ. Vightel Corp. Noblis Northrop Grumman Corp. West Virginia Hi-Tech Consortium Univ. of Maryland, College Park Draper Laboratory Innovative Solutions |
| NASA Langley Research Center | SansEC Sensors (Lab Equipment) | |
| National Energy Technology Laboratory | APECS with ANSYS Engineering Knowledge Manager (Software) | ANSYS Inc. ALSTOM Power Inc. Aspen Technology Inc. Carnegie Mellon Univ. ANSYS Inc. |
| National Energy Technology Laboratory | High-Temperature Palladium Sorbent to Remove Mercury in Gasification Process (Environmental Technologies) | Johnson Matthey Inc. |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology | Lyman Alpha Neutron Detector (LAND) (Beam Instruments) | Univ. of Maryland, College Park |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Inverted Metamorphic Multijunction Solar Cell (Energy Technologies) | EMCORE Corp Air Force Research Labs |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Hybrid CIGS (Energy Technologies) | HelioVolt Corp. |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Cratos V, nano-wool product derived from carbon nanotubes (Materials Sciences) | Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory | NanoSH Superhydrophobic Technology (Materials Sciences) | Ross Technology Corp. |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Adaptive Band Excitation Controller and Software for Scanning Probe Microscopy (Imaging Technologies) | Asylum Research |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Laser-Induced Fluorescence Composite Heat Damage Detector (Analytical Instruments) | Galt Technologies |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Grid Friendly Appliance Controller (Electrical Devices) | |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Multi-Scale Materials: Integrated Processing Method (Process Sciences) | Battelle Univ. of Calif-Santa Barbara |
| Paradigm Sensors LLC | i-SPEC Q-100 Handheld Biodiesel Analyzer (Analytical Instruments) | Marquette Univ. |
| Pfeiffer Vacuum | HiPace 80, HiPace 300, HiPace 700 (Thin Film/Vacuum Technologies) | |
| Phenomenex, Inc. | Clarity QSP (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Picarro Inc. | Picarro G1101-I Isotopic CO2 Analyzer (Analytical Instruments) | |
| PicoSolve Inc. | PICOSolve Optical Sampling Oscilloscope (Electrical Devices) | |
| PPG Industries Inc. | Green Logic (Materials Sciences) | |
| PPG Industries Inc. | Zircobond Pretreatment (Process Sciences) | |
| Pursuit Dynamics PLC | PDX Wort Heater (Process Sciences) | |
| QED Technologies | Subaperture Stitching Interferometer for Aspheres (SSI-A) (Imaging Technologies) | |
| S&C Electric | Tripsaver Dropout Recloser (Electrical Devices) | |
| Sandia National Laboratories | Xyce 4.0.2 (Software) | |
| Sandia National Laboratories | Silicon Micromachined Dimensional Calibration Artifact for Mesoscale Measurement Machines (Mechanical Devices) | ICX Photonics |
| Sandia National Laboratories | Superhydrophobic Coating (Thin Film/Vacuum Technologies) | University of New Mexico/Luna Innovations, Inc. |
| Sinmat, Inc. | Slurry for Polishing Wide Band Gap Semiconductors (Thin Film/Vacuum Technologies) | |
| Southwest Research Institute | TDRW (time domain random walk) V. 2 (Software) | |
| Spectra Analysis, Inc. | DiscovIR-LC (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Swagelok Company | SAT12 Patented Service Hardening Process (Process Sciences) | |
| Tennant Company | ech2o--Electrically activated water (Mechanical Devices) | |
| Tessera Technologies, Inc. | Tessera OptiML Wafer-Level Camera (WLC) (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific | Thermo Scientific NITON XL3t (Beam Instruments) | |
| Thomson Reuters | Thomson Innovation (Software) | |
| Torion Technologies, Inc. | GUARDION-7 GC-TMS (Analytical Instruments) | Brigham Young Univ. |
| Toyota Motor Corp. | Crawl Control (Mechanical Devices) | ADVICS Co. Ltd. |
| TSI, Inc. | Volumetric 3-component Velocimetry (V3V) System (Lab Equipment) | California Inst. of Tech. |
| University of Michigan | XY HiPER-NaP: XY High Precision Extended Range Nano Positioning System (Mechanical Devices) | |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | Smart Segmentation Automatic Contouring Utility (Software) | |
| Velocys, Inc. | Velocys-FT: Fischer-Tropsch Fuels Using Velocys Microchannel Technology (Process Sciences) | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Battelle |
| WiTec GmbH | Automated Confocal Raman & Atomic Force Microscope -- alpha500 (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Xceed Molecular Corp. | Ziplex Automated Gene Expression System (Life Sciences) | MetriGenix Corp. Catalyst Consulting Engenuity Corp. |
| Xoft, Inc. | AXXENT HDR X-Ray Source, Model S700 (Beam Instruments) |
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