Each year, R & D Magazine’s R&D 100 Awards are presented to the 100 most significant new technologies.
Over the past 39 years, Berkeley Lab has received 115 R&D 100 awards, including one Special Recognition Award (2018).
| Technology Title | Award Year | Principal Investigators |
| Spectral Phenotyping with MirroRx | 2022 |
Cynthia McMurray includes Edward Barnard, Ben Brown, Dhruba Ghosh, Lila Lovergne, and Aris Polyzos
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| Hydra I/O: A System for Highly Resilient Interchip Communications | 2022 |
Daniel Dwyer, Carl Grace, Dario Gnani, Armin Karcher, Peter Madigan, and Brooke Russell
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| Solar Fuel Generator Including a Catalytic Mesh | 2022 |
Jeff Beeman (Berkeley Lab, retired), Frances Houle (Berkeley Lab), David Larson (Twelve), Gideon Segev (Tel Aviv University), and Ian Sharp (Technical University of Munich), and Karl Walczak (Sandia National Laboratories)
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| Quick-ReleaseTM Binder for Recyclable Batteries | 2022 |
Gao Liu, Robert Kostecki, and Steve Sloop (OnTo Technology), Chen Fang, Xin He, Zhimeng Liu, and Yangzhi Zhao
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| Stable and High-Performing Single-Crystal NMC Cathode Materials | 2022 |
Guoying Chen and Yanying Lu
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| City Buildings, Energy, and Sustainability (CityBES) Web Tool for Climate Change Strategies | 2022 |
Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Max Wei, Wanni Zhang, Yujie Xu, Han Li, Kaiyu Sun, and former Berkeley Lab researchers Yixing Chen and Xuan Luo
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| The SEED Platform: Decarbonizing Cities through Robust Data Management | 2022 |
Paul Mathew, Robin Mitchell, and Nicholas Long (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
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| A High-performance Chromium-antimony Absorber Material for Next-generation Lithography Photomasks | 2021 |
Daniel Staaks, Stefano Cabrini, Patrick Naulleau, Farhad Salmassi, Eric Gullikson
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| Layered-Rocksalt Intergrowth Electrode Materials for Next-Generation Li-ion Batteries | 2021 |
Wei Tong, Ning Li, Wanli Yang, Meiling Sun, Jing Xu
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| Neutron and Gamma Ray Source Localization and Mapping Platform | 2021 |
Joshua Cates, Ryan Pavlovsky, Victor Negut, Brian Quiter, Tenzing Joshi, Alex Moran
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| Flow-Through Microelectrode Cell for Precision Electroanalytical Chemistry | 2020 |
Adam Weber, Nemanja Danilovic, Douglas Kushner, and John Petrovick
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| Matter-Wave Modulating Secure Quantum Communicator (MMQ-Com) | 2020 |
Alexander Stibor, with the University of Tübingen
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| Solid Lithium Battery Using Hard and Soft Solid Electrolytes | 2020 |
Marca Doeff, Guoying Chen, and Eongyu Yi, with Montana State University
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| Porous Graphitic Frameworks for Sustainable High-Performance Li-Ion Batteries | 2020 |
Yi Liu and Xinie Li, with Stanford University
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| Building Efficiency Targeting Tool for Energy Retrofits (BETTER) | 2020 |
Nan Zhou, Carolyn Szum, Han Li, Chao Ding, Xu Liu, and William Huang, with Johnson Controls and ICF
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| Amanzi–ATS: Modeling Environmental Systems Across Scales | 2020 |
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Berkeley Lab researchers including Sergi Molins, Marcus Day, Carl Steefel, and Zexuan Xu
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| Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (IDAES) | 2020 |
National Energy Technology Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, West Virginia University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Notre Dame, and Berkeley Lab researchers: Deb Agarwal, Oluwamayowa (Mayo) Amusat, Keith Beattie, Ludovico Bianchi, Josh Boverhof, Hamdy Elgammal, Dan Gunter, Julianne Mueller, Jangho Park, Makayla Shepherd, Karen Whitenack, and Perren Yang
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| Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology (NWB:N) | 2019 |
Oliver Rübel, Kristofer Bouchard, Andrew Tritt, Ryan Ly, Max Dougherty, and Benjamin Dichter, with UCSF, Allen Institute for Brain Science, HHMI Janelia, Vidrio Technologies, and NWB:N
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| Commercial Building Energy Saver (CBES) | 2019 |
Mary Ann Piette, Kaiyu Sun, Cynthia Regnier, Xuan Luo, Sang Hoon Lee, Yixing Chen, Rongpeng Zhang, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Philip Price
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| Portable Radiation Imaging, Spectroscopy and Mapping (PRISM) | 2019 |
Lucian Mihailescu, Kai Vetter, Paul Barton, Marcos Turqueti, Daniel Hellfeld, Alex Moran, Victor Negut, and Donald Gunter, with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
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| Portable Radiation Imaging, Spectroscopy and Mapping (PRISM) | 2018 |
Lucian Mihailescu, Kai Vetter, Paul Barton, Marcos Turqueti, Daniel Hellfeld, Alex Moran, Victor Negut, and Donald Gunter
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| Commercial Building Energy Saver (CBES) | 2018 |
Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Kaiyu Sun, Cynthia Regnier, Xuan Luo, Sang Hoon Lee, Yixing Chen, Rongpeng Zhang, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Philip Price
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| NWB:N (Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology) | 2018 |
Oliver Rübel and a large team from Berkeley Lab, Vidrio Technologies, and Allen Institute for Brain Science
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| eProject Builder – data management portal for energy services companies | 2018 | Peter Larsen, Mike Spears, Elizabeth Stuart, Shankar Earni, Phil Coleman, Yeongshnn Ong, Biju Jacob, Hannah Stratton |
| OP1 – recycling carbon dioxide into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels | 2018 – Special Recognition for Green Tech |
Etosha Cave, Kendra Kuhl (co-nomination with Opus 12)
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| Distributed Solar Estimation (DiSE) for Estimation of Renewable Energy Generation on the Grid | 2017 |
Emma Stewart, Ciaran Roberts, Emre Can Kara, Michaelangelo Tabone
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| Benchmarking and Energy Saving Tool for Low-Carbon Cities (BEST Cities) | 2017 | Nan Zhou, Lynn Price, Nina Zheng, Stephanie Ohshita |
| Double Barcoded Shotgun Expression Library Sequencing (Dub-Seq) | 2017 | Vivek Mutalik, Adam Arkin, Adam Deutschbauer, Pavel Novichkov |
| Crunchflow | 2017 | Carl Steefel |
| Risk Assessment and Uncertainty Quantification Software for Geologic Carbon Storage | 2017 | Eleven (11) LBNL developers on a team including LANL, LLNL, NETL, PNNL |
| Geometrically Enhanced Photocathode | 2017 | Jun Feng (co-nomination with National Security Technologies, LLNL, Nanoshift, LLC and General Atomics) |
| Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIM) Membrane for Long-lived Lithium-Sulfur Batteries | 2016 | Brett Helms |
| Sustainable, Affordable Fluoride Removal (SAFR) | 2016 | Ashok Gadgil, Katya Cherukumilli, Yash Mehta, Subiksh Chandrashekar |
| Cool Roof Time Machine | 2016 | Ronnen Levinson, Hugo Destaillats, Mohamed Sleiman, Thomas Kirchstetter, Sharon Chen, Haley Gilbert, Paul Berdahl, and George Ban-Weiss (LBNL) and Hashem Akbari (Concordia University) |
| Compact Dynamic Beamstop | 2016 | Diane Bryant, Simon Morton |
| Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) Toolset | 2016 | Deb Agrawal (co-nomination with NETL, LLNL, LANL, PNNL, Carnegie Mellon University, West Virginia University, Princeton University, Boston University and University of Texas at Austin) |
| OpenMSI | 2015 | Ben Bowen, Oliver Rübel |
| High Capacity Anode for Rechargeable Batteries | 2015 |
Gao Liu and Hui Zhao (LBNL), Chuck Consorte (Zeptor)
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| Sensor Integrated with Recombinant and Engineered Nanophage (SIREN) | 2015 | Seung-Wuk Lee |
| Vehicle-to-Grid Simulator (V2G Sim) | 2015 |
Samveg Saxena, Jonathan Coignard, Jason MacDonald
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| Extended Pressure Inductive Coupled Plasma-synthesized Boron Nitride Nanotubes (EPIC BNNTs) | 2015 | Alex Zettl |
| Continuous Active-Source Seismic Monitoring (CASSM) | 2015 | Thomas Daley, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, Ernest Majer |
| Binary Pseudo-Random Calibration Tool | 2015 | Valeriy Yashchuk, Wayne McKinney (co-entry with Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories and ABeam Technologies, Inc.) |
| BioSig3D | 2014 | Bahram Parvin, Gerald Fontenay, Cemal Bilgin, Hang Chang, Ju Han |
| Tissue Specific Cell Wall Engineering for Biofuels and Biomaterials | 2014 | Henrik Scheller, Dominique Loqué |
| Berkeley Lab Multiplex Chemotyping Microarray | 2014 | Hoi-Ying Holman, Liang Chen, Giovanni Birarda, Sun Choi |
| High Throughput NIMS Screening | 2013 | Trent Northen (co-entry with Nextval Systems) |
| Bacteriophage Power Generator | 2013 | Seung-Wuk Lee |
| Conducting Polymer Binder for High Capacity Lithium Ion Batteries | 2013 |
Gao Liu, Wanli Yang, Lin-Wang Wang, Vincent Battaglia and postdoctoral fellows Sang-Jae Park, Mingyan Wu, Shidi Xun
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| OSCARS: On-demand Secure Circuits and Reservation System | 2013 | Chin Guok |
| Universal Smart Window Coating | 2013 | Delia Milliron, Guillermo Garcia, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Llordés |
| Campanile Probe | 2013 | Alex Weber-Bargioni, P. James Schuck, Stefano Cabrini |
| OWL-MRI: Optically Detected Oil Well Logging by MRI | 2013 | Alex Pines, Vikram Bajaj, Scott Seltzer, Paul Ganssle |
| VOTO: Heat Activated Fuel Cell | 2013 | Steve Visco, Mike Tucker, Lutgard DeJonghe (co-entry with Point Source Power) |
| Multinozzle Emitter Array | 2012 | Daojing Wang, Pan Mao, Peidong Yang |
| Compact Variable Collimator | 2012 | Simon Morton, Jeff Dickert (co-entry with Genomics Institute of Novartis Research Foundation and Takeda Pharmaceutical) |
| Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry (LAMIS) | 2012 | Rick Russo, Xianglei Mao (co-entry with Applied Spectra) |
| High Output Neutron Generator | 2012 | Qing Ji, Bernhard Ludewigt (co-entry with Adelphi Technology) |
| MRMI: Magnetic Resonance Microarray Imaging | 2011 | Alex Pines, Vikram Bajaj, David Wemmer, Matthew Francis |
| Nanostructured Antifogging Coatings | 2011 | Samuel Mao, Vasileia Zormpa, Xiaobo Chen |
| Home Energy Saver | 2010 | Home Energy Saver team, led by Evan Mills and Rich Brown (co-entry with Microsoft) |
| Rough Silicon Nanowires for Waste Heat Utilization | 2010 | Peidong Yang, Allon Hochbaum, Renkun Chen, Raul Diaz Delgado, Arun Majumdar |
| Chemicals on Demand | 2010 | Alex Zettl, Jean Frechet, David Okawa, Stefan Pastine |
| APPELS: Differentially Pumped Ambient Pressure PhotoElectron Lens System for Photoemission Studies | 2010 | Frank Ogletree, Hendrick Bluhm, Zahid Hussain, Miquel Salmeron (co-entry with Franz Haber Institute of the Mas Planck Society and SPECS GmbH) |
| EMGeo: ElectroMagnetic Geological Mapper | 2009 | Greg Newman, Michael Commer |
| Nanocrystal Solar Cells | 2009 | Paul Alivisatos, Delia Milliron, Ilan Gur, Liberato Manna, Erik Scher, Haitao Liu, Steven Hughes, Neil Fromer, Richard Robinson, Bryce Sadtler (co-entry with Solexant) |
| NEXUS DLC-X Coating System with Pulsed Filtered Cathodic Arc Technology | 2009 | Andre Anders (co-entry with Veeco Instruments Inc.) |
| TEAM Electron Microscope Stage | 2009 | Thomas Duden, Nord Andresen, Rich Weidenbach, Andreas Schmid |
| Nanostructured Polymer Electrolyte For Recharge Lithium Batteries | 2008 |
Nitash Balsara, Ilan Gur (Seeo Inc.)
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| Biomimetic Search Engine | 2008 | Kasian Franks, Connie Myers, Raf Podowski |
| Berkeley Lab PhyloChip | 2008 | Gary Andersen, Todd DeSantis, Eoin Brodie,Yvette Piceno |
| FastBit Bitmap Index | 2008 | Kesheng “John” Wu, Arie Shoshani, Ekow Otoo, Kurt Stockinger |
| Laser Detected MRI | 2007 | Alex Pines, Dmitry Budker, Shoujun Xu, Valeriy Yashchuk, Marcus Donaldson, Simon Rochester |
| Low Swirl Injector for Fuel Flexible Near Zero Emissions Gas Turbines | 2007 | Robert Cheng, David Littlejohn |
| Berkeley Unexploded Ordnance Discriminator | 2007 | Frank Morrison, Erika Gasperikova, Alessandro Ratti, Alex Becker, Jean-Francois Beche, Larry Doolittle, Jim Greer, Robin Lafever, J. Torquil Smith, Harold Yaver |
| High-Output Coaxial-Target Neutron Generator | 2006 | Ka-Ngo Leung, Jani Reijonen, Frederic Gicquel, Stephen Wilde |
| Laser Ultrasonic Sensor | 2006 |
Paul Ridgway, Richard Russo, and Emmanuel Lafond (Georgia Tech)
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| High Efficiency Multiband Semiconductor Material for Solar Cells (Editor’s Choice) | 2006 | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz, Kin Man Yu |
| The Carbon Explorer | 2006 | James Bishop |
| Berkeley Lab Optical Sound Restoration System (Editor’s Choice ) | 2005 | Carl Haber, Vitaliy Fadeyev |
| Neural Matrix CCD | 2005 | E.A. Blakely, I.G. Brown, K.A. Bjornstad, J.E. Galvin, O.R. Monteiro, and C.J. Rosen; and Cellular Bioengineering Inc. (H. Wuh, K.s. Chinn, K.T.C. Jim, and G.M. Lui) |
| Ion Mobility Analysis for Rapid Identification of Cardiovascular Disease Indicators | 2005 | W. Henry Benner, Ronald Krauss, Patricia Blanche |
| Synthetic Rotational Nanomotor | 2004 | Alex Zettl |
| Transition Metal Switchable Mirrors | 2004 | Thomas Richardson, Jonathan Slack |
| Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Tool for Chip Manufacturing | 2003 | David Attwoood and other 205 researchers from Berkeley Lab, Livermore Lab, and Sandia Laboratory |
| EnergyPlus Software for Energy Efficient Design of Buildings | 2003 | Fred Winkelmann, Fred Buhl, Ender Erdem, Joe Huang, Kathy Ellington |
| Crystal Robot for Nanovolume Crystallization of Proteins for Drug Discovery | 2002 | Joseph Jaklevic, Derek Yegian, Jian Jin, William F. Kolbe, Earl W. Cornell, Robert A. Nordmayer |
| Remote Acess Grid Explorer (RAGE) for Web Conferencing | 2002 | Deborah Agarwal, Clayton Bagwell, Joshua Boverhof, Eve Edelson, Dan Gunter, Keith Jackson, Marcia Perry, Zach Radding, John Shalf, Martin Stoufer |
| Gas-Filled Panels for Energy Efficient Insulation | 2001 | Dariush Arasteh, Steve Selkowitz, Howdy Goudey, Daniel Turler, Brent Griffith (with CargoTech) |
| Fine XAD Sorbent Coating for Air Quality Monitoring | 2000 | Lara Gundel |
| Combinatorial Synthesis of Novel Materials | 2000 | Xiao-dong Xiang,Peter Schultz |
| Constricted-Plasma Source (CPS) | 1997 | Mike Dickinson, Andre Anders, Mike Rubin |
| White Board, Session Directory, Video Conferencing, and Video Audio Tool Software | 1995 | Van Jacobson |
| Solar 1000 Microwave Sulfur Lamp | 1995 |
Sam Berman, Doug Crawford, George Gabor, Chuck Greene, Tom Orr (with Fusion Lighting Inc.)
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| Carbohydrate Protein Conjugates (CPCs) | 1993 | Marc Bednardski |
| Long Trace Profiler II (LTP II) | 1993 | Steve Irick |
| DC Broad-Beam High-Current Metal Ion Source | 1992 | Ian Brown,Michael Dickinson, James Galvin, Robert MacGill |
| Raster Scanner Beam Delivery System | 1992 | Tim Renner, Bill Chu, Bernhard Ludewigt |
| Alkaline-Fluoride-Carbonate Electrolyte for Zinc,Nickel Oxide Batteries | 1992 | Thomas Adler, Elton Cairns, Frank McLarnon |
| High-Resolution Scanning Photoelectron Microscope | 1991 | |
| Soft X-Ray Small-Angle Scattering Apparatus | 1990 | James Underwood, Rupert Perera, Dana Berkeland |
| High-Fluence Laboratory XUV Source | 1990 | |
| High-Resolution Mirror Assembly | 1989 | Steve Irick |
| Double-Rotation NMR | 1989 | Alex Pines |
| High-Resolution Erect-Field Spectrometer,Monochromator | 1988 | James Underwood, Al Thompson, Phillip Batson |
| Compact Microwave Ion Source | 1987 | |
| Wobbler Beam Delivery System | 1987 | Bill Chu |
| Dual-Phase Low Carbon Steels ‘FERMAR’ | 1987 | Bill Morris |
| Zero-Field NMR | 1987 | Alex Pines |
| Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) | 1987 | Mike Vella |
| Long-Pulse Plasma Density Probe | 1986 | Kenneth Ehlers |
| X-Ray Gamma Ray Detector | 1985 | |
| Fusion Common Long Pulse Source (Neutral Beam Source) | 1985 | Wulf Kunkel, Klaus Berkner |
| High-Current Ion Source (MEVVA) | 1985 | Ian Brown |
| 6-Channel Silicon X-Ray Detector for Plasma Diagnostics | 1984 | |
| Automated Seismic Processor | 1984 | Tom McEvilly, Ernest Majer |