Air Liquide announces winners of the “Essential Small Molecules Challenges”

Air Liquide launched an annual competition back in January 2016 called the Air Liquide Essential Molecules Challenge. The competition was implemented to reinforce Air Liquide’s focus on science for accelerating innovation.

Essential molecules such as O_2, N_2, H₂ and CO₂¹, embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory. The jury, chaired by François Darchis, Senior Vice-President, member of the Air Liquide group’s Executive Committee, for the first edition of the competition, selected three projects from a total of 130 scientific proposals submitted by academic teams, R&D departments and start-ups from 25 countries.

This year’s winners are:

Kevin Sivula, professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, on the subject of “Sunny H2 in a bottle”, or how to produce hydrogen out of water using solar energy;