Welcome to the University of Colorado Boulder's Shared Instrumentation Network, your resource for equipment, instrumentation and services to help you achieve your research goals.
The Shared Instrumentation Network 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 about Core Facilities at CU Boulder, please contact the Research and Innovation Office at RIO@colorado.edu.
Latest News
NSF funds new electron beam lithography system for quantum engineering, nanofabrication on Boulder campus
CU's Innovation in Materials Science 2022 Symposium (Register by July 31st!)
2022 Core Facility Assistance Grant and Voucher programs award $135K to faculty across disciplines
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.