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Winning an R&D 100 Award--innovation meets entry submission: an R&D 100 Award pays dividends that go beyond the plaque on the wall.(R&D 50 YEARS)
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June 1, 2008
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- Owens, Mig
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Bryce Tappan and his brother grew up interested in science and were "partners in crime for all the backyard experiments," he recalls. So when Tappan, a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, N.M., learned he had won an R&D 100 Award, his brother, now a staff member at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., was among the first with whom he shared the good news.
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Tappan's team took home the 2005 award in the process category for nanoFOAM, a metal-nanofoam fabrication technique that produces low-cost nanofoams of various transition metals to improve catalysis in fuel cells, rockets, and chemical ...
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