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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
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 Burner et al. “ARC-MOF: A Diverse Database of MOFs with DFT-Derived Partial Atomic Charges and Descriptors for Machine Learning”, Chemistry of Materials, 2023, 35, 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.
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.
April 2021 – Jake awarded a NSERC CGS-D Scholarship
April 2021 – Congratulations to Jake for being awarded a NSERC CGS-D scholarship. This is Canada’s top national graduate scholarship.
April 2021 – Congratulations to Adam on his new job.
April 2021 – Congratulations to Adam (M.Sc. student in the lab) for landing a job as a data scientist with Bell Networks. He starts in May.
April 2021 – Lab awarded large MITACS grant
April 2021 – Congratulations to Professor Woo and Professor Arvind Rajendran (University of Alberta) for being awarded ~$500K from MITACS to develop materials for CO2 capture with an industrial sponsor.
Jan. 2021 – Publication in Nature Machine Intelligence.
January 2021. Our collaborative work with Randy Snurr’s and Alain Aspuru-Guzik’s lab on using variational autoencoders for MOFs was published. Yao, Z; Sanchez-Lengeling, B.; Bobbitt, S.; Bucior, B.J.; Kumar, Sai Govind Hari ; Collins, S.P.; Burns, T.; Woo, T.K.; Farha, O.; Snurr, R.Q.*; Aspuru-Guzik, A.* “Inverse Design of Nanoporous Crystalline Reticular Materials with Deep Generative […]
Feb. 2021 – Professor Woo wins faculty’s “Researcher of the Year” award
February 2021. Congratulations to Professor Woo who was won the Faculty of Science’s 2020-2021 Research Excellence Award, also known as the Researcher of the Year award.
Jan. 2021 – Congratulations to Chris Rowley on his new faculty position
January 2021. Congratulations to Woo lab alumni Chris Rowley (Ph.D. 2010) on his new faculty position at Carleton University, here in Ottawa. Chris is moving his lab from Memorial University. Chris is originally from Ottawa so we aren’t sure but he may have moved back in with his parents!
