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 Claudius Mundoma, Director of Core Facilities & Shared Instrumentation at the Research and Innovation Office.
Latest News
The value of core facilities from a researcher’s perspective
New cleanroom facility on CU Boulder campus will support the fabrication of ultra-small structures, enable big ideas
New electron microscope at CU Boulder enables groundbreaking research across disciplines—and from a distance
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.