Teams from MDF are perennial contenders for R&D100 Awards, known as the “Oscars of Innovation.” R&D100 Awards recognize “new commercial products, technologies and materials for their technological significance that are available for sale or license.”
MDF teams also compete for the CAMX Combined Strength Award, which recognizes innovations that have the potential to significantly impact composites and advanced materials in the marketplace.
Recent Awards
R&D100 Award: MedUSA: Large-scale Multi-agent Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (2023)
Co-Developers
Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions
Team Members
ORNL: Andrzej Nycz, Alex Arbogast, Chris Masuo, Mark Noakes, Peter Wang, Luke Meyer, William Carter, Derek Vaughan, Alex Walters and Joshua Vaughan;
Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions: Jonathan Paul and Jason Flamm.
R&D100 Award: OpeN-AM: A Platform for Operando Neutron Diffraction Measurements of Additive Manufacturing (2023)
Team Members
Alex Plotkowski, Chris Fancher, Kyle Saleeby, James Haley, Ke An, Dunji Yu, Tom Feldhausen, Guru Madireddy, Yousub Lee, Joshua Vaughan, Suresh Babu, Jessie Heineman, Clay Leach, Wei Tang, and Amit Shyam.
R&D100 Award (2023): Additive Manufacturing-Compression Molding, AM-CM (2023)
Team Members
Vipin Kumar, Vlastimil Kunc, Ahmed Hassen, David Nuttall, Pum Kim, Deepak Pokalla, Paritosh Mhatre, Bill Peter, Craig Blue, and Joshua Vaughan.
CAMX Combined Strength Award: BioHome3D (2023)
Co-lead organizations
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Maine
Team Members
ORNL: Halil L. Tekinalp, Soydan Ozcan, Matt Korey, and Vlastimil Kunc
UMaine: Habib Dagher and Susan MacKay
R&D100 Award: Additively Manufactured Thermally Conductive Collimators for Neutron Instrumentation (2023)
Co-Developers
PolarOnyx, Inc.
Team Members
ORNL: Matthew Stone, Jeff Bunn, Andrew May, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Victor Fanelli.
PolarOnyx: Jian Liu and Shuang Bai.
R&D100 Award: DuAlumin-3D: An Additively Manufactured Dual-Strengthened Aluminum Alloy Designed for Extreme Creep and Fatigue Resistance (2022)
Co-Developers
General Motors, Beehive Industries, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Team Members
ORNL: Alex Plotkowski, Amit Shyam, Ryan Dehoff, Allen Haynes, Richard Michi, Sumit Bahl, Ying Yang, Larry Allard, Jon Poplawsky, Bill Peter, Derek Splitter, and Jiheon Jun.
GM: Qigui Wang, Andy Wang, Devin Hess, Dan Wilson, and Dale Gerard
Beehive Industries: Jonaaron Jones, Devon Burkle, Rachel Jones, and Charles Stansberry
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Kevin Sisco
R&D100 Award: MSC MillMax® (2021)
Co-Developers
MSC Industrial Supply Inc.
Manufacturing Laboratories Inc.
Team Members
ORNL: Kevin Scott Smith, Tony Schmitz, and Andrew Honeycutt
MSC: Jamie Goettler, Scott Stickney, Steve Baruch, Alan Yang and the MSC Metalworking Specialist Team
Manufacturing Laboratories: Dave Barton and Tom Delio
R&D100 Award: Domestic supply chain of filter media and face masks (2021)
Co-Developers
Techmer PM, DemeTECH, and Cummins
Team Members
ORNL: Lonnie Love, Craig Blue, Merlin Theodore, Greg Larsen, and Parans Paranthaman
Techmer PM: Alan Franc
DemeTECH: Luis Arguello Jr.
Cummins: Christopher Holm
Peter Tsai, formerly of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
R&D100 Award: Biomacromolecule Engineering by Soft Chain Coupling Technology (2020)
Co-Developers
Carpenter Technology Corporation Colorado School of Mines, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Strategic Analysis Inc., and Ozdemir Engineering Inc.
Team Members
ORNL: Soydan Ozcan, Halil Tekinalp, Kai Li, Yu Wang, and Xiangtao Meng
R&D100 Award: High-Strength Binder System for Additive Manufacturing (2019)
Co-Developers
The ExOne Company
Team Members
ORNL: Tomonori Saito, Amy Elliott, Lu Han, Dustin Gilmer, and Michelle Lehmann
R&D100 Award: Ambient Reactive Extrusion Additive Manufacturing (2018)
Co-Developers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Team Members
ORNL: Orlando Rios, Lonnie Love, Brian Post, Peter Lloyd, and William Carter
R&D100 Award: ACE: The Ageless Aluminum Revolution (2017)
Co-Developers
ORNL, Eck Industries, Ames Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Team Members
ORNL: Orlando Rios, Zach Simms, Eric Stromme, Michael Kesler, Hunter Henderson, and Bruce Moyer.
R&D100 Award: Additively Printed High Performance Magnets (2017)
Co-Developers
Ames Laboratory, Critical Materials Institute, Magnet Applications Inc., Tru-Design Inc., and Momentum Technologies
Team Members
ORNL: Parans Paranthaman, Vlastimil Kunc, Ling Li, Brian Post, Orlando Rios, Michael McGuire, Brian Sales, Edgar Lara-Curzio, and Amy Elliot.
R&D100 Award: Coating Solutions for Large-Format Additive Manufacturing (2017)
Co-Developers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Polynt Composites
Team Members
ORNL: Vlastimil Kunc, Craig Blue, Bill Peter, Lonnie Love, Brian Post, Ahmed Hassen, John Lindahl, David Nuttall, Chad Duty, Nadya Ally, and Alex Roschli.
R&D100 Award: Techmer Engineered Additive Manufacturing Materials (2017)
Co-Developers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and BASF
Team Members
ORNL: Vlastimil Kunc, Craig Blue, Bill Peter, Lonnie Love, Brian Post, Ahmed Hassen, John Lindahl, David Nuttall, Chad Duty, Nadya Ally, and Alex Roschli.
R&D100 Award and CAMX Combined Strength Award: Big Area Additive Manufacturing- CI System (BAAM-CI) (2015)
Co-Developers
Cincinnati Incorporated and Local Motors
Team Members
ORNL: Chad Duty, Lonnie Love, Brian Post, Vlastimil Kunc, Brett Compton, Craig Blue, Randall Lind, John Rowe, and Peter Lloyd.
R&D100 Award: GENOA Software Simulation Software (2015)
Team Members
ORNL: Vlastimil Kunc, Craig Blue, Brett Compton, Vlastimil Kunc, Brian Post, Lonnie Love, and Chad Duty.
R&D100 Award: Asymmetric Rolling Mill: A Novel Route for Processing Sheet and Plate (2012)
Co-Developers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Magnesium Elektron North America
Team Members
ORNL: Govindarajan Muralidharan, Thomas Muth, Evan Ohriner, William Peter, David Harper, Thomas Watkins, Eliot Specht, and Alan Liby.
R&D100 Award: Low-Cost, Lightweight Robotic Hand Based on Additive Manufacturing (2012)
Team Members
ORNL: Lonnie Love, Bradley Richardson, Randall Lind, Ryan Dehoff, William Peter, Larry Lowe, Craig Blue, Martin Keller, and Art Clemons.
R&D100 Award: NanoSHIELD Coatings (2012)
Co-Developers
Carpenter Technology Corporation Colorado School of Mines, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Strategic Analysis Inc., and Ozdemir Engineering Inc.
Team Members
ORNL: William Peter, Ryan Dehoff, Peter Blau, Craig Blue, Thomas King Jr., Art Clemons, John Rivard, Wei Chen, Andrew Klarner, Kevin Harper, and Larry Lowe.