Tomonori Saito
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tomonori Saito is a distinguished R&D staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and a joint faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a synthetic polymer chemist (Ph.D. 2008 Virginia Tech), who has extensive experience in synthesis and various applications of well-defined polymers. He currently leads various polymer science projects at ORNL including polymer upcycling, vitrimer composites, self-healing materials, building materials, polymer electrolytes for Li-ion batteries, fuel cells and flow batteries, and many others. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed articles (h-index 54), 16 patents issued (several were licensed.), won R&D 100 in 2012, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024, and FLC award in 2025, as well as received the inventor of the year by Battelle in 2023, and elected for Battelle distinguished inventor in 2024.