Dr. Tomonori Saito, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named as one of the Battelle Distinguished Inventors in recognition of being granted 14 or more United States patents.
Tomonori Saito, distinguished R&D staff member in the Chemical Sciences Division. The 2023 Battelle Inventor of the Year, Saito received ORNL’s Research Accomplishment, Outstanding Scholarly Output and BTSD Outstanding ORNL Collaborator Award in 2022. The recipient of five R&D 100 Awards, Saito’s research focuses on polymers, and his innovations in polymer upcycling address plastic waste and enable closed loop recycling. His other projects have advanced polymers for several applications, such as additive manufacturing, composites, adhesives, ion-conducting polymers in batteries and fuel cells and thermal insulating building materials. [View Full Article]