The PMEAL team at U of Waterloo has just received funding through an NSERC Engage grant to start a collaboration with Object Research Systems to add OpenPNM to their Dragonfly visualization package. This grant provides $25k for a 6 month project, to pay students on the PMEAL team to code the interface. This a big development for OpenPNM as it will expose many new users to the package and allow a whole new way to work with pore networks. This 6 month project is just kicking off now, so stay tuned for further developments.
The Dragonfly software package is available to academics free of charge, and is shipped with all Zeiss Xradia tomography machines.
The OpenPNM team has prepared a paper outlining the architecture and capabilities of our software package. It is now officially available in the 
Aimy Bazylak’s group at UofT has published the first official article using OpenPNM. The title is “Investigating Inlet Condition Effects on PEMFC GDL Liquid Water Transport through Pore Network Modeling”, and as the name suggests they look at the different water invasion patterns arising from different boundary conditions for the IP process.
Tom Tranter of the University of Leeds presented his work using OpenPNM at the 2nd H2FC SUPERGEN Researcher Conference in Birmingham.
Prof. Jeff Gostick gave a talk to full room during the plenary session of the Fuel Cell symposium at the Fall meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Cancun this past October. The talk was focused on the use of pore network models to simulate complete fuel cell operation, include both anode and cathode GDLs, catalyst layers and ionomer separator. The talk illustrated the important impact of the discrete nature of water clusters in the fuel cell electrode, which leads to localized reactant starvation, hindered proton production, and an overall increase in ohmic losses. The work was entirely performed in OpenPNM.