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R&D 100 Awards

The R&D 100 Awards—called the “Oscars of Innovation”—recognize the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace each year. Brookhaven Lab is home to 37 R&D 100 Awards. Brookhaven’s endeavors to transform breakthrough scientific discoveries into game-changing technology—including advances in x-ray imaging techniques, cancer detection, and energy catalysis—have resulted in many R&D 100 recognitions. Brookhaven continues its commitment to partnerships between cutting-edge basic science and commercial deployment to help meet energy challenges, strengthen national security, and stimulate the economy.

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Recent Brookhaven R&D 100 Awards

RD100 2019 winner Details

2019

Collaborating scientists developed a solution for imaging materials’ dynamic behaviors, without the need for complex and expensive pulsed lasers.

RD100 2016 winner Details

2016

Brookhaven scientists led a team for a custom-built x-ray microscope at the National Synchrotron Light Source II. Advanced x-ray optics provide resolution better than 15 nanometers—50,000 times smaller than a grain of sand.

RD100 2016 winner Details

2016

Brookhaven's James Muckerman, Etsuko Fujita, and Kotaro Sasaki, a postdoc, and two high school students developed the low-cost MoSoy Catalyst that eliminates the need for expensive metal catalysts to speed up the rate at which water is split.

RD100 2016 winner Details

2016

Anti-reflective, water-repellent materials with nanotextured "coatings" developed for a project led by Charles Black at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials could lead to production of highly efficient, self-cleaning solar cells, glare-free cell phone screens, and perfectly transparent windows.

RD100 2015 winner Details

2015

Vyacheslav Solovyov and Qiang Li developed a novel superconducting fault current limiter that can transmit large amounts of electrical energy without added conduction losses and can rapidly interrupt the flow of energy when an emergency occurs.

2015 RD100 Details

2015

Brookhaven's Nathalie Bouet and Peter Takacs developed the Binary Pseudo-Random Calibration Tool with collaborators to solve a difficult problem: the quantitative characterization of the measuring instruments.

RD100 2014 winner Details

2014

Brookhaven scientists developed a novel radiation detector called GammaScout, a compact system that provides detailed spectroscopic and imaging information about the presence and distribution of x-ray and gamma-ray radiation in a sample.

RD100 2012 winner Details

2012

Brookhaven chemist Radoslav Adzic and his research team developed durable, high-performing, low-platinum electrocatalysts optimized for use in electric vehicle fuel cells.

2011 RD100 Details

2011

Researchers at the National Synchrotron Light Source and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) developed the Maia x-ray microprobe detector system, capable of imaging everything from Rembrandt paintings to soil deposits 1,000 times faster than previous methods.

RD100 winner 2009 Details

2009

Collaborating with Hybridyne Imaging Technologies, Inc., Brookhaven scientists invented a compact gamma camera called ProxiScan, capable of detecting prostate cancer at an early stage and raising the chances of early diagnosis and treatment.

RD100 winner 2006 Details

2006

National Synchrotron Light Source scientists developed the Sagittal Focusing Laue Monochromator, the first device able to focus a large spread of high-energy x-rays to study physics, biology, and nanotechnology with superior beam intensity, higher image resolution, and greater efficiency.

RD100 winner 2005 Details

2005

Kansas State University and Yinnel Tech, Inc. collaborated with Brookhaven to create a highly efficient, low-cost portable radiation detector for homeland security applications, nuclear medical imaging, environmental monitoring and cleanup, galactic events studies, and nuclear-weapons safeguards.