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May 2025 – Woo delivers Plenary Lecture at MedPore 2025 in Morocco

May 2025:  Woo delivers a Plenary lecture at the 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Porous Materials, MedPore 2025 in Marrakech, Moracco.

May 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Sari who were awarded scholarships

Congratulations to Sari who was awarded a national NSERC USRA fellowship and to Sydney who was awarded a WISE scholarship from the University – both to work in the lab during the summer.

April 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Rhiannon for their award winning undergrad theses.

Congratulations to Sydney and Rhiannon for successfully defending their undergrad thesis work. Rhiannon was awarded the best undergraduate thesis in Chemistry and Sydney was awarded the Hypercube undergraduate thesis award.  Sydney’s thesis was titled “The Effect Of Chemically Invalid Metalorganic Frameworks On The Predictive Abilities Of Machine Learning Models” and Rhiannon’s thesis was titled ” A Computational Workflow for Identifying Novel Organic Linkers in MOFs for CO2 Capture”.

April 2025 – Woo joins the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Chemistry

Journal of Computational Chemistry

Professor Woo was invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Chemistry.

August 2024 – Two Patent Applications from the Group Made

The group has applied for two patent applications from research funded by TotalEnergies:

Kapeliukha, A.; Gibaldi, M.; White, A.; Woo, T.K. “PROCESSING IN SILICO CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS” International Patent Application PCT/IB2024/000468

White, A.; Gibaldi, M.; Woo, T.K. “ASSIGNING METAL OXIDATION STATES” International Patent Application PCT/IB2024/000468

April. 2024 – Prof. Woo delivers Plenary Lecture at MOFSIM2024

Professor Woo presented a Plenary Lecture at the MOFSIM2024 (link) conference in Montpellier France titled “Buyer Beware: Alarming Structural Error Rates in MOF databases and Novel Detection and Correction Tools”

January 2024 – Our ARC-MOF paper in Chemistry of Materials Editor’s highlights of 2023

Jake’s ARC-MOF paper was highlighted by the editor’s of Chemistry of Materials annual 2023 year in review

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Burner et al. “ARC-MOF: A Diverse Database of MOFs with DFT-Derived Partial Atomic Charges and Descriptors for Machine Learning”, Chemistry of Materials202335, 900. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02485

January 2024 – The Woo lab hosts the annual meeting for the ACO2RDS project

The Woo lab is part of the multi-disciplinary ACO2RDS project involving several research groups from Canada, USA, Germany and France. The goal is to study and develop adsorption based CO2 capture systems. This year the lab hosted the annual meeting at the University of Ottawa.

Jan. 2024 – We have moved our group news feed off of X/twitter

We have moved our group news feed off of X/twitter and will be migrating the news items back to our website posts.

May 2021 – Marco, Scott and Victoria join the lab.

May 2021 – Marco, Scott and Victoria join the lab.  Marco as a Ph.D. candidate, Scott as a M.Sc. candidate and Victoria as a undergraduate summer student.

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