March 2026 – Group Hockey Game Outing
March 2026 – The group went to an Ottawa 67’s (OHL) hockey game – no fights but the 67’s beat the Peterborough Petes 6-3.
Feb. 2026 – New group members Grace and Aziz defeated by the Pho Challenge.
Feb. 2026- New group members Grace and Aziz try the XXL Pho challenge and are sadly defeated. Below are Grace happily starting the challenge and Aziz at the breaking point.
Feb. 2026 -Our MOSAEC-DB paper part of the most popular porous materials collection in Chemical Science
Feb. 2026 – Congratulations to Marco and the group for their MOSAEC-DB paper making the journal’s most popular porous materials collection. – “MOSAEC-DB: A comprehensive database of experimental metal-organic frameworks with verified chemical accuracy suitable for molecular simulations” Chemical Science, 2025, 16, 4085.
June 2025 – Andrew, Jake, Marco, Ohmin, Jun & Rosa present at the Canadian Chemistry Conference(CSC 2025)
The Canadian Chemistry Conference (CSC2025) was held in Ottawa this year. Group members Andrew and Marco gave oral presentations in the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Biomolecular, Materials, and Molecular Design’ session. Jake, Andrew, Ohmin, Jun and Rosa presented posters.
May 2025 – Andrew’s MOSAEC paper has been published in JACS
May 2025 – congratulations to Andrew White and other group members whose paper on identifying structural errors in MOF databases has been published in JACS: White, A.; Gibaldi, M.; Burner, J.; Mayo, R.A.; Woo, T.K.* “High structural error rates in MOF databases used in data driven workflows identified via a novel metal oxidation state-based method”, […]
May 2025 – Prof. Woo delivers Plenary Lecture at MedPore 2025 in Morocco
May 2025: Prof. 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 ” […]
April 2025 – Prof. Woo joins the editorial board of the 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
