Steve Kuznicki

Imperial Oil - Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Oil Sands Innovation - Ingenuity Scholar since 2004

Award-winning blue sky R&D researcher with a long list of science commercialization successes.

• Inventor of the Year award winner (New Jersey - 1997)

• Thomas Edison Award winner for top scientist in industry (New Jersey - 2001)

• 50+ patents in active use in industry - US $15-billion industry with worldwide markets

• Discovered the extraordinary binding power of titanium silicates for heavy metals, leading directly to the first practical filters for removal of lead from drinking water

• Cost effective crystalline molecular sieves among the most valuable classes of inorganic materials - used in petroleum cracking for gasoline production, oxygen production from air, water purification by removing heavy metals and more

• 0.01 nanometer Molecular Gate capable of separating molecules with such small size differences bringing a new dimension to the concept of molecular sieving

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