R＆D World副总裁兼编辑总监Paul J. Heney表示：“这一奖励计划在整个研发界得到了广泛认可，被R＆D 100提名是令人难以置信的荣誉。此次获奖当中的产品、技术将对未来各行业起到颠覆性的促进作用，并使这个世界更加美好。”
材料显示，获得三项或三项以上R＆D大奖的主要组织有：阿贡国家实验室，陶氏化学公司，爱达荷州国家实验室，劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室，劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室，洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室，麻省理工学院林肯实验室，NETL，橡树岭国家实验室，以及桑迪亚国家实验室。
此外，评委还将对四个特别表彰类别中（分析/测试、机械/材料、软件/服务、IT/电气）的多个奖项进行评选，每个类别中都可能获得金奖，银奖和铜奖。
开发人员：ThalesNano Energy
联合开发者：塞格德大学 匈牙利
产品说明：H-Genie是第一台专门为化学家设计的紧凑型高压氢气发生器。它可以从水中安全地以1 nL / min的速度产生高达1450 psi的氢气，并且旨在通过更换危险的氢气瓶来实现和改善氢化作用，同时提高实验室安全性。
开发人员：KMLabs，Inc. 美国
产品描述：KMLabs QM Quantum Microscope™先进的成像和分析解决方案是商业设计系统，包括一个高功率激光放大器源，EUV或VUV波长转换，为用户实验量身定制的高效光束线以及成像或其他分析终端站，可以有效覆盖纳米/量子材料的显微镜/光谱学领域。
开发人员：Pendar Technologies，LLC。美国
产品说明：Pendar X10™提供突破性的，防区外的（最长3英尺）拉曼化学识别，可用于EOD、HAZMAT、麻醉品、法医等。它减轻了荧光，并具有黑色粉末和高灵敏度的底漆，具有最小的着火风险。简单的傻瓜式技术仅需很少的培训，即可在几秒钟内得出结果。
Refeyn OneMP质谱法–用光称分子
开发人员：Refeyn Ltd 英国
产品描述：质谱光度法可以对溶液中的单个分子进行精确质量测量，这些分子处于原始状态且无需标签。 Refeyn OneMP是使用这种革命性技术在几分钟内执行质量分析的第一台仪器。 这项技术为生物分析和生物分子功能研究开辟了新的可能性。
MailSecur mmWave全动态无创成像系统
开发人员：RaySecur Inc.
联合开发者：国家光学研究所（INO）美国
产品说明：MailSecur是世界上第一个非侵入式成像系统，能够利用非电离且完全安全的mmWaves实时“观察”内部物体。该系统比X射线灵敏300倍，可检测到邮件中的少量危险粉末和液体，从而大大提高了公共安全性。
激光诱导击穿光谱法（LIBS）地下监测工具
开发人员：美国能源部国家能源技术实验室 美国
产品描述：该技术是基于激光诱导击穿光谱法（LIBS）的微型全光传感器，可提供有关水中的元素组成的详细信息。该分析可以在现场进行，而无需从井中取出样品，从而节省了时间和金钱。
CellSight-快速的本机单细胞质谱
开发人员：橡树岭国家实验室
联合开发者：Cytena GmbH 美国
产品描述：CellSight在高通量设备中将单细胞液滴输送与液体萃取质谱法结合在一起，无需分子标记即可测量单细胞的化学成分。CellSight是一种功能强大的新工具，可为数十亿美元的行业提供商业机会，例如医药、制药和环境监测。
适用于超快速电子显微镜的经济实惠的无激光可改装频闪仪解决方案
开发者：Euclid TechLabs，LLC
联合开发者：JEOL美国公司布鲁克海文国家实验室NIST 美国
产品说明：一种经济实惠的解决方案，可将现有的商用TEM改造和升级为超快电子显微镜。使用先进的RF技术将电子束调制并切成皮秒电子脉冲，重复频率高达10 GHz。占空比和重复率是连续可调的。
开发人员：Thermo Fisher Scientific
共同开发者：N / A 英国
产品描述：Thermo Scientific Orbitrap ID-X三合一质谱仪系统结合了专用于小分子分析的质量分析仪技术，Thermo Scientific AcquireX智能MSn数据采集策略和一套数据分析工具，可简化小分子的鉴定和表征。
开发人员：NCH Corporation / Chem Aqua
联合开发者：无 美国
产品说明：bioDART是一项革命性的新技术，可用于监控水处理系统中生物污垢的可能性。 bioDART对生物污染状况的高灵敏度以及独特的报告功能，使操作员能够在潜在问题引起系统故障之前对其进行识别和解决。
蔡司Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM超高分辨率显微镜
开发人员：Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 德国
产品描述：蔡司Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM超高分辨率显微镜，具有超分辨率技术，极其高效且快速。其创新的Lattice SIM技术具有非常高的光效率，并且能快速超高分辨率成像。此外，其光毒性低和成像速度快的特点，可让研究人员从中受益良多。Lattice SIM照明技术突破了快速超高分辨率的界限，其目前可用于几乎所有活细胞和固定样本的成像实验。得益于此，研究者可以借助Lattice SIM 多通道长时间的以三维大视野、温和地观察活细胞样品的快速动态过程细节。
开发人员：太平洋西北国家实验室
联合开发者：Teledyne Brown Engineering 美国
产品说明：Xenon International是一个自动的放射性氙监测系统，可对超痕量的氙气进行分析，以检测核爆炸的迹象。该系统按照严格的国家和国际要求收集，分离，纯化和定量放射性氙同位素，为国际安全监控提供了最先进的工具。
Eshmuno®CP-FT树脂
开发者：MilliporeSigma 美国
产品说明：Eshmuno®CP-FT是专门为前沿色谱法提供的流通式去除聚集体的首个阳离子交换树脂（CEX），其装载量是传统结合/洗脱CEX色谱法的10倍。
R＆D 100提名名单
| Product | Organization | Category |
| A Green Battery Printed on LoRa IoT Devices | Nano and Advanced Materials Institute | Mechanical/Materials |
| ADDSec Artificial Diversity and Defense Security | Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Software/Services |
| AF-369 VHF/UHF Terrestrial Direction Finding Antenna | Southwest Research Institute | IT/Electrical |
| Affordable Laser-free Retrofittable Stroboscopic Solution for Ultra-fast Electron Microscopy | Euclid TechLabs, LLC | Analytical/Test |
| ALFa LDS: Autonomous, Low-Cost, Fast Leak Detection System | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| ArtGut | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Analytical/Test |
| ATOMIC ARMOR: Innovative nanomaterials designed to protect sensitive technologies with a one-atom-thick shield | Los Alamos National Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| Bionic Intelligent AGV Fleet System | metal Industrial Research& Development Centre | Mechanical/Materials |
| Capacitor-Assisted High Power Battery | General Motors | Mechanical/Materials |
| CellSight—Rapid, Native Single-Cell Mass Spectrometry | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Analytical/Test |
| CHIRP: Cloud Hypervisor-forensics and Incident Response Platform | Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Software/Services |
| Cobalt-based Nanocrystalline Alloys for Gapless Inductor and Sensor Applications | National Energy Technology Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials |
| Commercial Building Energy Saver (CBES) – a tool to enable equitable access to building deep retrofit and zero-net energy strategies for small- and medium-sized commercial buildings | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering | Idaho National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| DeltaFS—Rapidly Searching Big Data to Accelerate Scientific Discovery | Los Alamos National Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| DeltaMax™ Performance Modifiers, masterbatches for polypropylene | Milliken & Company | Mechanical/Materials |
| DIFA(Distance Fabric) – New dimension of weaving machine | Taiwan Textile Research Institute | Mechanical/Materials |
| Digital Twin Solutions for Smart Farming | Institute for Information Industry | Software/Services |
| Dow Release Modifier for High Efficiency Label Manufacturing | Dow | Mechanical/Materials |
| Dual-Mode Imaging Receiver | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| Electronic Neutron Generator Calibration System | Idaho National Laboratory | Analytical/Test |
| Enhanced Performance Anodic Epoxy Electrocoat | PPG | Mechanical/Materials |
| Eshmuno® CP-FT Resin | MilliporeSigma | Mechanical/Materials |
| EverBatt: Argonne’s Novel Closed-Loop Battery Recycling Model | Argonne National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| FEARCE: Fast, Easy, Accurate, and Robust Continuum Engineering: Improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions in combustion engines | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials |
| First Polyethylene based Build Material in 3D Printing: EVOLV3D™ OBC | Dow Inc. | Mechanical/Materials |
| Fuel Cell Catalyst with Ultralow Pt Loading | Argonne National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials |
| Fully Automatic Heart Function Measurement System Using Real-time 3D Ultrasound Imaging Technology | Hitachi, Ltd. | Analytical/Test |
| Gas Mapping LiDAR ™ | Bridger Photonics, Inc. | Analytical/Test |
| Ghidra | National Security Agency (NSA) | IT/Electrical |
| GREAT STUFF™ SMART DISPENSER™ | DuPont | Mechanical/Materials |
| Grid Agents – IoT Multiparameter Sensor Platform for Cyber-Physical Security of the Electric Grid | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| High Energy Density and Safe Battery System for Powering Electric Vehicles | Argonne National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials |
| High Impact Polymer Resin | Toyota Boshoku Corporation | Mechanical/Materials |
| High Strength Binder System for Additive Manufacturing | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials |
| High Thermal Conductivity Impregnating Resin – Voltatex® 4224 | Axalta Coating Systems | Mechanical/Materials |
| High-Performance Nanoantenna-Enabled Detectors (NEDs) | Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Analytical/Test |
| High-Temperature Irradiation-Resistant Thermocouples (HTIR-TC) | Idaho National Laboratory | Analytical/Test |
| iKNOBEADS are the world’s first magnetic microparticles with tailorable sizes and shapes. | Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) | Other |
| IMPEDE® Embolization Plug | Shape Memory Medical Inc. | Analytical/Test |
| Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) subsurface monitoring tool | The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory | Analytical/Test |
| LCTWTA Model 2000HDA-A16, Space-to-Earth Q-band high-power RF amplifier | L3 Technologies Electron Devices Inc. (L3 EDD) | IT/Electrical |
| Lightweight Deployable Array Panels for Space | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| Lotus Superhydrophobic Compositions and Coating Process (LotusFlo(TM)) | Southwest Research Institute | Mechanical/Materials |
| MailSecur mmWave Full Motion Non-Invasive Imaging System | RaySecur Inc. | Analytical/Test |
| Manufacturing process for extracting high-quality cellulose nanocrystals from biomass | Argonne National Laboratory | Process/Prototyping |
| Martin Bionics Socketless Socket™ | Martin Bionics LLC | Other |
| Marvite Materials (These products are named in honor of the key inventor, Marvis White, who is suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and is now retired from Engi-Mat Co.) | Engi-Mat Co. | Mechanical/Materials |
| Mass photometry – weighing molecules with light | Refeyn Ltd | Analytical/Test |
| Product | Organization | Category |
| MC-15 Portable Neutron Multiplicity Detector: Helping emergency response teams quickly identify and assess nuclear-based threats | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Analytical/Test |
| MIRaGE – Multiscale Inverse Rapid Group-Theory for Engineered metamaterials | Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Software/Services |
| MLSTONES: Bio-inspired malicious software detection and analysis | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| MoBILE (Mobility and Biomechanics Insert for Load evaluation) | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| Multi-Mode Elpasolite Scintillator – CLLBC | Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. | Process/Prototyping |
| Nano-functionalized Alloys for Additive Manufacturing | HRL Laboratories, LLC. | Mechanical/Materials |
| Novel Nanodiamonds for Nanosensing and Quantum Computing | North Carolina State University, Centennial Campus, Raleigh, NC 27695-7907 | Mechanical/Materials |
| NWB:N (Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology) | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| Offshore Risk Modeling (ORM) Suite | National Energy Technology Laboratory | Software/Services |
| Open Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization (OpenMDAO) framework | NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio | Software/Services |
| Pendar X10™:A Breakthrough in Short-Range Standoff Raman for Chemical Identification | Pendar Technologies, LLC. | Analytical/Test |
| Persistence Data Mining | Ohio Soybean Council | Analytical/Test |
| Personalized PseudoPatient™: The World’s first phantom for patient-specific quality assurance in brain radiotherapy | RTsafe | Analytical/Test |
| Phased Array Antenna System for In-Band Full-Duplex | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| Phononic’s F200 Merchandising Freezer | Phononic | Mechanical/Materials |
| Polartec® Power Air™ | Polartec | Mechanical/Materials |
| Portable Radiation Imaging, Spectroscopy and Mapping (PRISM) | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Analytical/Test |
| PRECISE: The World’s Fastest, Smartest Solar Integration Solution | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| QM Quantum Microscope – Next Generation Microscopy & Analysis | KMLabs, Inc. | Analytical/Test |
| RAIBA – Reconfigurable and Regulatable Battery Array System | Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) | IT/Electrical |
| Rapid Convective Growth Detector | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Software/Services |
| Real-time intraoperative parathyroid identification to prevent accidental removal of parathyroid glands during thyroid surgery | Vanderbilt University | Analytical/Test |
| ResStock™—A 21st-Century Tool for Energy Efficiency Modeling with Unparalleled Granularity | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Software/Services |
| Revolutionary Relaxation Process for Sweater Manufacturing | The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel | Process/Prototyping |
| Safe Power – Safe and Versatile Aqueous Lithium Ion Batteries | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| SAM Reactor System Analysis Code | Argonne National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| SCR framework: Accelerating Resilience and I/O for Supercomputing Applications | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| Severe Contingency Solver: Electric Power Transmission Analysis | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| SILASTIC™ MS-4007 Moldable Optical Silicone for Eaton’s Ephesus LumAdapt 8 LED Sport’s Stadium Light | Dow Performance Silicones | Mechanical/Materials |
| SimCCS2.0: Open-source software for designing CO2 capture, transport, and storage infrastructure | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| Sliding Plating Process | Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Manufacturing Engineering Center | Process/Prototyping |
| Smartphone using CAAC-IGZO technology (AQUOS R2 series) | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. | IT/Electrical |
| SolarEdge: World’s 1st EV Charging Solar Inverter with Solar Boost Mode for Up to 6X Faster Charging | SolarEdge Technologies Ltd. | Mechanical/Materials |
| Spack: A Package Manager for HPC Systems | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Software/Services |
| SPLASH: Smart Platforms Leveraging Automated Sample Handling | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Analytical/Test |
| Tactical Microgrid Standard (TMS) Open Architecture | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Software/Services |
| Targeted Acoustic Laser Communication (TALC) | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Process/Prototyping |
| The F71 and F41 Teslameters: Innovative Instruments Offering a New Level of Precision, Convenience, and Dependability for Magnetic Analysis, Testing, and Verification | Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. | Analytical/Test |
| The H-Genie: A smart high pressure hydrogen generator for safer chemistry | ThalesNano Energy | Analytical/Test |
| Thermal Energy Storage System (TESS) | Argonne National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials |
| Thermally conductive and emissive PBT resin for heatsink applications | DuPont Transportation & Industrial | Mechanical/Materials |
| Thermo Scientific Orbitrap ID-X Tribrid Mass Spectrometer system | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Analytical/Test |
| Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) Traffic Aware Planner | NASA Langley Research Center | Software/Services |
| U.S. FDA Approval: MAVENCLAD® (cladribine) tablets | EMD Serono, the biopharmaceutical business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, in the U.S. and Canada | Analytical/Test |
| Unified Communications X (UCX): a lightweight exascale-ready communications framework | Los Alamos National Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| Visibility Estimation through Image Analytics (VEIA) | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Software/Services |
| Voltanol: Electrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Ethanol | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Mechanical/Materials |
| Wireless radio Frequency signal Identification and protocol Reverse Engineering—WiFIRE | Idaho National Laboratory | IT/Electrical |
| Xenon International | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Analytical/Test |
| ZEISS Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM | Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH | Analytical/Test |
| “bioDART Biofouling Monitor” | NCH Corporation/Chem Aqua | Analytical/Test |