July 11, 2014
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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories have had their industrial development work honored by R&D magazine in its annual R&D 100 awards list.
The awards culminate an international competition that recognizes the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year. They recognize excellence across a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, optics, high-energy physics, materials science, chemistry and biotechnology.
Winning projects, by lab, include:
Berkeley Lab
- Tissue-Specific Cell-Wall Engineering for Biofuels and Biomaterials (Life Sciences)
- BioSig3D (Life Sciences)
- Berkeley Lab Multiplex Chemotyping Microarray (Life Sciences)
Lawrence Livermore Lab
- Convergent Polishing: Rapid, Simple, Low Cost Finishing of High Quality Glass Optics (Process Science)
- Superconducting Tunnel Junction X-Ray Spectrometer (Analytical Instrumentation) (with STAR Cryoelectronics LLC)
- microTLC (Laboratory Equipment) (with Field Forensics Inc.)
- Extreme-power Ultra-low-loss Dispersive Element (EXUDE) (Lasers/Photonics) (with Lockheed Martin Laser and Sensor Systems, and Advanced Thin Films)
Los Alamos
- SAFIRE (Environmental Technologies) (with Chevron ETC and GE Measurement & Control)
- Acoustic Wavenumber Spectrometer (AWS) (Analytical Instrumentation)
This year's awards will be presented Nov. 7 during a black-tie dinner at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
