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Six AMMTO-Funded Projects Win 2024 R&D 100 Awards

Check out the winning projects funded by AMMTO. Congratulations to the winners!

Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office

August 22, 2024
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The 2024 R&D 100 Awards—a renowned worldwide science and innovation competition—have been announced! Check out the winning projects funded by AMMTO below. Congratulations to the winners!

  • Process/Prototyping Winner: “MedUSA: Large-Scale Multiagent Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing.” Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL).
  • Process/Prototyping Winner: “High Lithium Capacity Sorbents for Direct Lithium Extraction Toward Increased Domestic Critical Mineral Supply Chain.” ORNL, with funding from the Critical Materials Innovation Hub.
  • Process/Prototyping Winner: “APEX CDR–Amino acid Process for EXtreme Carbon Dioxide Removal.” ORNL and Holocene, an Innovation Crossroads 2022 Cohort company (LEEP). 
  • Process/Prototyping Winner: “Selective Mixed Plastic Recycling.” ORNL and Re-Du, an Innovation Crossroads 2023 Cohort company (LEEP).
  • Process/Prototyping Winner: "Rapid thermal processing of solid-state lithium battery ceramic electrolyte materials." Argonne National Laboratory.
  • Process/Prototyping Winner: "Rapid Continuous Supercritical Hydrothermal Manufacturing Platform for Single Crystal Battery Materials (Hydro4Crystal)." Argonne National Laboratory
     

Learn more about these six winning projects from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory

Large mechanical arms construct a metal object.
MedUSA demonstrated the ability to print large, metallic components for clean energy applications.
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  • Advanced Manufacturing Processes
  • American Manufacturing
  • Critical Materials and Minerals
  • National Labs
  • PR100