Keywords:
theoretical and computational chemistry, molecular simulation,
metal organic frameworks, clean energy, carbon capture and
storage, catalysis, materials science, high performance scientific computing.
Welcome to the research web page of Professor
Tom Woo, at the department of Chemistry, the University of Ottawa. We
are situated in the beautiful city of Ottawa - Canada's National Capital.
Our principle research interests lie in the fields of computational chemistry
and their applications to carbon capture and storage, clean energy
technologies and catalysis.We
are involved in the development and application of state-of-the-art
molecular simulation techniques to model chemical systems at the atomic and electronic level. Since our simulation
techniques push the limits of current computing technologies, our group is
also heavily involved in high performance technical computing
and we run our own 500+ CPU computing cluster. The group is also part of the
University of Ottawa's world class Centre for Catalysis Research and
Innovation (CCRI).
Nov. 2011 - Our papers
"Phosphonate monoesters as carboxylate-like
linkers for metal organic frameworks"and "Competition and cooperativity in CO2 sorption
by amine functionalized metal organic frameworks"
with George Shimizu's group
have been accepted in JACS and ACIE,
respectively.
Oct. 2011 -
Our group's pumpkin this year is a MOF pumpkin capturing CO2!
Oct. 24 2011 -
Congratulations to Carlos and Jessica on the arrival of their
daughter Sofia.
Sept. 2011 -
Congratulations to Arif who won best poster presentation prize at the
Jacques Cartier Colloquium on 21st Century Catalysis Science and
Applications .
August 2011 -
Saeid finishes his sabbatical
in the Woo lab and returns to Iran.
August 2011 -
Mike has his first paper accepted - "Molecular
dynamics free energy calculations for CO2
capture in structure I clathrate hydrates in the presence of SO2,
CH4, N2, and H2S impurities"
March 2011 -
Congratulations to George Shimizu (University of Calgary) and Woo who were
awarded $940000 (including industry cash) over three years from Carbon
Management Canada to design new carbon dioxide capture materials for
reducing green house gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion..
Feb. 2011 -
Congratulations to Chris Rowley who has accepted a Faculty position at
Memorial University.
Nov. 2010 Our work
on the computer modeling of CO2 capture in nanoporous materials,
was published in the journal
Science. The work with collaborators at the
University of Calgary was also featured on CBC news. The work was also
a 'News of the Week' feature on
Chemical &
Engineering News
