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Professor Patrick M. Woodward

Professor Patrick M. Woodward

Education

  • September 1991 to December 1996 – Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
  • PhD – Chemistry (Minor: Physics)
  • MS – Materials Science
  • August 1984 to May 1991 – Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
  • BS – Chemistry (Minor: Mathematics)
  • BS – General Engineering

 

Professional Experience

  • November 2010 – present                Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
    •           Professor, Dept. of Physics
  • June 2008 – present                            Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
    •           Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • June 2004 – June 2008                        Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
  •           Associate Professor, Deptt of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • September 1998 – June 2004          Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
    •           Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • December 1996 – August 1998        Brookhaven National Laboratory – Upton, NY
    •           Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept of Physics

Awards and Honors

  • Visiting Professor, Kyoto University (2025)
  • Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award (2025)
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2020)
  • Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Durham University (2017–2018)
  • Fulbright US Scholar, declined (2017)
  • Inorganic Foundation Fellow, University of Sydney (2007)
  • Visiting Professor, University of Bordeaux (2005)
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2004–2006)
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2001–2006)

 

Professional Activities and Service

  • Director of General Chemistry, Ohio State University (2021–present)
  • Interdisciplinary Research Group Co-Leader, Center for Emergent Materials (OSU MRSEC) (2008–2020)
  • Chair, 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Chemistry (2016–2018)
  • Vice President, Neutron Scattering Society of America (2014–2018)
  • Vice-chair for Undergraduate Studies: OSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (2011–2014)
  • Associate Director, Center for Emergent Materials (OSU MRSEC) (2011–2013)
  • Associate Editor: Journal of Solid State Chemistry (2006–2011)
  • Faculty Director: Ohio REEL Undergraduate Research Consortium (2005–2011)

Books and Book Chapters

  • “Chemistry – The Central Science” 15th Edition T.L. Brown, H.E. LeMay, B.E. Bursten, C.J. Murphy, P.M. Woodward, M.W. Stoltzfus, Pearson, Upper Saddle River, NJ (2022).
  • “Solid State Materials Chemistry” P.M. Woodward, P. Karen, J.S.O. Evans, T. Vogt, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (2021).
  • “Using bond valences to model the structures of ternary and quaternary oxides”, M. W. Lufaso and P. M. Woodward in Structure and Bonding: Bond Valences, edited by I. D. Brown and K. R. Poeppelmeier, Springer, New York, NY (2014).
  • “The electronic structure of metal oxides”, P.M. Woodward, H. Mizoguchi, Y.I. Kim, M.W. Stoltzfus in Metal Oxides: Chemistry and Applications, edited by J.L.G Fierro, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (2005).

 

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications (201 total, >16,600 total citations, h-index = 62)

  1. “Structure Directing Influences in a Family of One-Dimensional Hybrid Cadmium Thiocyanate Halides” A. Milder, T. Y. Liu, P. M. Woodward, Inorg. Chem. 64, 18135-18143 (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c016392.
  2. “Long Range Magnetic Order in 6H Hexagonal Perovskites Containing Chromium and Rhenium” C. J. Foster, J. Xiong, M. Boswell, W. Xie, M. Avdeev, P. M. Woodward, Inorg. Chem. 64, 14361-14370 (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c016303.            
  3. “Temperature Dependent Mixed Valency in the Hexagonal Perovskite Cs3NaFe2Cl9” D. Liu, A. Milder, J. Stevens, C. Foster, B. Beck, M. Avdeev, P. M. Woodward, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 147, 7634-7643 (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c170194.            
  4. “Triply Ordered 6H Halide Perovskites: A Family of Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnets” D. Liu, C. J. Foster, B. Beck, P. M. Woodward, Inorg. Chem. 64, 1875-1883 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c045755.            
  5. “Exploring the links between structural distortions, orbital ordering, and multipolar magnetic ordering in double perovskites containing Re(VI) and Os(VII)” V. da Cruz Pinha Barbosa, D. D. Maharaj, Z. W. Cronkright, Y. Wang, R. Cong, E. Garcia, A. P. Reyes, J. Yan, C. Ritter, V. F. Mitrović, B. D. Gaulin, J. E. Greedan, P. M. Woodward, Chem. Mater. 36, 11478-11489 (2024).

 

Invited Oral Presentations

  • 94 invited lectures at conferences and workshops
  • 98 invited seminars and colloquia at universities
  • Invited talks presented in 31 US states, 4 Canadian provinces, and 13 countries (US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, France, Czechia, India, Germany, Finland, Spain, Russia, & Switzerland)

The Search for New Phosphors and Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

Patrick M. Woodward

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,

The Ohio State University

 

Abstract: In this talk I will discuss our efforts to discover new wide bandgap materials that possess favorable optical properties. The first half of the talk will focus on metal halides with perovskite or perovskite-related structures that emit various colors of visible light, without the incorporation of rare-earth ions. The incorporation of Mn2+ as an activator results in bright red emission, when coupled with a suitable sensitizer. The incorporation of Sb3+ leads to emission wavelengths ranging from blue to green to red, depending on the local environment of the Sb3+ ion. The second half of the talk focuses on mixed anion compounds, either oxide fluoride or nitride fluoride, that have wide band gaps and disperse conduction bands that are well suited for application as transparent conductors and photocatalysts.

 

Biosketch: Patrick Woodward received BS degrees in Chemistry and General Engineering from Idaho State University in 1991, an MS degree in Materials Science and a PhD in Chemistry from Oregon State University in 1996, where he studied under Professor Arthur Sleight.  He was a postdoc in the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory (1996−1998) before joining the faculty at Ohio State University in 1998, where he currently is the Newman Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Solid State Chemistry (2006-2011) and Vice President of the Neutron Scattering Society of American (2014-2018). He has been recognized as an NSF Career Fellow (2001), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2004), a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2020) and held visiting faculty positions at the University of Bordeaux (2005), University of Sydney (2007), Durham University (2017-2018), and Kyoto University (2025).  He is co-author of two widely used textbooks, Chemistry: The Central Science and Solid State Materials Chemistry.

 

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