Health-E-Nose Wins 1st at TiE Pittsburgh
Health-E-Nose wins big again at the TiE Pittsburgh Pitch Competition.
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Becca’s Battery Cellu-tion to Climate Change
How can a battery cell reduce climate change? (And what do orca whales have anything to do with it?)
FlowCellutions Wins Kuzneski Cup!!
Great Job Team!
Health-E-Nose Wins Top Prize at PDMA
Health-E-Nose won the top prize at the Pittsburgh Product Development and Management Alliance pitch competition!
FlowCellutions Wins Big Idea Blitz!!
Nice job FlowCellutions with the battery testing BIG idea!
Chris and Daniel Publish Paper on E-Waste Fraud
What can we do about fraudulent recycling?
Health-E-Nose wins 2nd at the Randall Family Big Idea Competition!
Wilmer Lab members Brian and Becca pitched the Health-E-Nose for a third time, and won second place at the Randall Family Big Idea Competition!
Health-E-Nose wins again at the Big Idea Blitz!
Wilmer Lab members Brian and Becca pitched the Health-E-Nose for a second time, and won first place at the Big Idea Blitz competition!
Health-E-Nose wins first at the Big Idea Blast!
Wilmer Lab members Brian Day and Becca Segel pitched Health-E-Nose to improve screening and diagnostics in the medical industry, and won first place at the B...
Brian Day launches a STEM & Society Lecture Series.
Wilmer Lab member, Brian Day, along with various other graduate students with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) are pleased to announce the be...
Chris and Daniel give their thoughts to Chemistry World
Is blockchain a new paradigm in safeguarding science, or does it just tie our hands?
Brian Day wins the PQI travel award
Brian wins the 2020 Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) travel award for his poster presented during the 2020 poster competition.
Blign launches!
Blign, a Blender plugin for aligning and distributing objects developed by Kutay and Jack of the WilmerLab, launches!
PhD student Kutay Sezginel wins Braskem America, Inc. Graduate Student Award
Kutay takes home one of two awards given to the top graduate students in the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department at this year’s holiday reception.
Kutay Sezginel successfully defends his thesis. Congrats Dr. Sezginel!
Kutay Sezginel (now Dr. Kutay Sezginel) becomes the third WilmerLab PhD alumnus after successfully defending his thesis.
Kutay leads MolSSI Workshop at the University of Pittsburgh
Kutay leads a two-day best software practices workshop at the University of Pittsburgh, covering topics from Python code style to git basics
ChemE team wins 2nd place at IBM BlueHack!
During the 2019 IBM BlueHack hackathon, a team of ChemE PhD students from the Wilmer Lab, Little Lab, and Li Lab beat out 19 other teams for a second place f...
Popular YouTube content creator makes a video about the upcoming computational nanocar race and our nanocar builder
The video has reached around half a million views already!
Alec Kaija successfully defends his thesis. Congrats Dr. Kaija!
Alec Kaija (now Dr. Alec Kaija) becomes the second WilmerLab PhD alumnus after successfully defending his thesis.
Collaborative work with NETL on CO2 capture published as front cover article in Energy & Environmental Science.
The artwork was made by NETL scientist Jan Steckel’s daughter Anastasia!
Pet Tales: Pitt alums’ portable oxygen system has cats and dogs breathing easier Permalink
Dogs and cats who have trouble breathing can benefit from a new portable oxygen delivery system invented by WilmerLab alumni.
Jenna Gustafson successfully defends her thesis. Congrats Dr. Gustafson!
Jenna Gustafson (now Dr. Jenna Gustafson) becomes the first WilmerLab PhD alumna after successfully defending her thesis.
Pitt Engineers Identify Novel, Affordable CO2 Capture Materials for Coal Power Plants Permalink
A computational modeling method, developed by the research group led by Christopher Wilmer, may help to fast-track the identification and design of new carbo...
PhD student Jenna Gustafson wins Braskem America, Inc. Graduate Student Award
Gustafson takes home one of two awards given to the top graduate students in the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department at this year’s holiday recep...
MOFs: The Plastics of the 21st Century
In a thought leadership piece published in Scientific American, NuMat co-founders Ben Hernandez and Professor’s Omar Farha and Chris Wilmer, discuss how MOFs...
Nanocar builder plug-in for Avogadro 2
Do you want to build a nanocar but you don’t know how? Just follow these easy steps…
Aeronics advances to Phase IV of xTechSearch competition.
Aeronics awarded $125,000 in the US Army’s xTechSearch Competition.
Health-E-Nose pitch wins top prize of $100,000 at the Pitt Innovation Challenge (PInCh).
Jenna and Chris competed against five other teams with their pitch for a portable electronic nose that can ‘sniff’ out diseases.
Aeronics advances to Phase III of xTechSearch competition.
Aeronics becomes one of 25 finalists attending the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington, DC.
Artificial nose project makes it to final round of the Pitt Innovation Challenge (PInCh).
The design of an artificial nose for disease detection and health monitoring earns Dr. Wilmer and PhD student Jenna Gustafson a spot in the top six teams for...
Jenna receives U.S. DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award.
The SCGSR award offers Jenna the opportunity to carry out research at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).
Aeronics releases its first product: Everyday Oxygen
Aeronics launches pre-sales for first product!
Jenna presents computational artificial nose design at IMCS 2018 in Vienna, Austria.
Jenna presents her work at the International Meeting on Chemical Sensors.
Kutay was selected as a Phase I MolSSI software fellow
Kutay’s research proposal on developing a computer-aided design tool for artificial molecular machines was funded by Molecular Science Software Institute (Mo...
Jenna’s publication wins Outstanding PhD Paper for Spring Term 2018
Jenna’s paper on optimizing information content in MOF arrays for gas sensing takes the top prize in Pitt’s Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering.
Talk on designing artificial noses using MOFs earns Outstanding Oral Presentation.
Jenna’s presentation on her research for the computational design of an electronic nose wins at the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department Research ...
Kutay’s paper was featured on the cover of Chemistry of Materials.
Kutay’s paper on thermal transport properties of interpenetrated Metal-Organic Frameworks was accepted as a cover article in Chemistry of Materials.
Kutay’s publication wins Outstanding PhD Paper for Summer Term 2017
Kutay’s paper on interpenetrating Metal-Organic Frameworks takes the top prize in Pitt’s Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering.
Jenna and Kutay make strong showing at Startup Blitz pitch competition.
Jenna and Kutay were among the nearly 50 students who turned out at the O’Hara Student Center to pitch their ideas.
Algorithm deliberately entangles MOFs.
Kutay’s paper on interpenetrating Metal-Organic Frameworks was featured on the cover of CrystEngComm. The paper also got picked up by Chemistry World.
Aeronics finishes second at Princeton’s TigerLaunch competition.
Aeronics wins $10,000 at Princeton-based competition for entrepreneurship.
