The AC is currently expanding the University of Toronto’s chemistry building to house seven new SDLs and a training SDL. The AC’s SDLs are open core facilities that support the research and development efforts of the AC and its academic, industrial, and government partners. Each SDL will be led by a team of Staff Scientists and will be supported by:

• an AI and Automation Lab with expertise in creating the machine learning algorithms and custom automation required to accelerate scientific discovery
• a Social Sciences Lab that will assess the ethics of accelerated materials discovery as well as the commercialization of both SDLs as a platform and of their material outputs.