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Welcome to Core Facilities and Shared Instrumentation at the University of Colorado Boulder, your resource for equipment, instrumentation and services to help you achieve your research goals.

Core Facilities and Shared Instrumentation is a resource for the entire CU Boulder campus that enables fundamental and applied research, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration across our many departments, institutes and centers.

If you have core facilities or shared instrumentation and are interested in learning more, please contact Joe Dragavon, Director of Core Facilities & Shared Instrumentation at joseph.dragavon@colorado.edu.
 

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CU Cores in the Spotlight

COSINC adds new 3D Nano printer capability

A new 3D “nano” printer installed in the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) cleanroom provides new research avenues in soft materials, optics and more.

Materials Instrumentation and Multimodal Imaging​ Core​ (MIMIC)

A new project at the CU Museum of Natural History will use a CT scanner in the MIMIC facility to visualize what reptiles and amphibians look like on the inside. 

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