Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory are the recipients of a combined seven R&D 100 awards for 2011.
Presented by R&D magazine, the R&D 100 Awards recognize the year's 100 most significant proven technological advances.
In all, DOE's national laboratories and facilities won 36 R&D 100 Awards this year. In response, Energy Secretary Steven Chu released this statement:
"I want to congratulate this year's R&D 100 award winners. The Department of Energy's national laboratories and facilities are at the forefront of innovation, and it is gratifying to see their work recognized once again. The cutting-edge research and development done in our national labs and facilities is helping to meet our energy challenges, strengthen our national security and enhance our economic competitiveness."
Winning projects, by lab, are:
Lawrence Berkeley Lab
- Magnetic Resonance Microarray Imaging (MRMI) (Imaging Technologies)
- Nanostructured Antifogging Coatings (Materials Sciences)
- Serrated Light Illumination for Deflection-Encoded Recording (SLIDER) (Imaging Technologies)
- Stack Trace Analysis Tool (Software)
Los Alamos Lab
- NanoCluster Beacons (Life Sciences)
- TAPSS: Trapped Annular Pressure Shrinking Spacer (Energy Devices)
- Th-ING: Thorium Is Now Green (Energy Devices)