For the second consecutive year, LLNL has won a coveted Editors Award at the annual R&D100 Awards presentation, sponsored by R&D Magazine. This year, the honor went to Hyung Gyu Park and Francesco Fornasiero, for their work developing nanostructured membranes for water purification. The technology has been licensed to Porifera, Inc. of Hayward.

Only three Editors Awards are given out of the 100 awards.

This is the second year in a row that that Lab has won an Editors Award. In 2009, the award went to the team working on the artificial retina.

In all, the Lab received six awards at a black tie ceremony in Orlando, Florida on Thursday evening. LLNL's other winning entries were: Energy Monitor for Ultrahigh-Brightness X-Ray Pulses; High Performance Strontium Iodide Scintillator for Gamma Ray Spectroscopy; MEMS-based Adaptive Optics Optical Coherance Tomography; GATOR: Grating Actuated Transient Optical Recorder; and SRaDS: Statistical Radiation Detection System.

The Lab has now captured a total of 135 R&D 100 awards.

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