The following Berkeley Lab technologies have been named as finalists in the 2017 R&D 100 Award competition:

Energy Technologies Area

  • Estimation of Renewable Energy Generation on the Grid (Stewart, Kara, Roberts, Tabone)
  • MyGreenCar (Saxena)
  • BEST Cities Software (Zhou, Price, Khanna, Ohshita)

Biosciences:  Dub-Seq: Double Barcoded Shotgun Expression Library Sequencing (Arkin, Mutalik)

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Reactive Transport Software for Subsurface Applications (Steefel)

Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics: Miniature Ion Accelerator (Persaud, Schenkel, Qing Ji)

Berkeley Lab was a co-nominee in two nominations named as finalists:

National Risk Assessment Partnership (Oldenburg, Daley, Gasperikova with LANL, LLNL, PNNL and NETL)

Geometrically Enhanced Photocathode — nominated by National Security Technologies

Award winners will be announced in November 2017.