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Following the joint Materials Instrumentation and Multimodal Imaging Core (MIMIC)��Facility and Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) facility��virtual webinar on Nov. 18, Associate Professor Wil Srubar shares the importance of having core facilities at public institutions.

The value of having access to state-of-the-art equipment and expert staff cannot be overstated when working towards groundbreaking research. The centralization at core facilities can be key to improving research efficiency.

The amount of research happening at the technology-based labs housed in the Research & Innovation Office is proof of that. There are 23 core facilities in all, including the Materials Instrumentation and Multimodel Imaging Core (MIMIC) facility.

The MIMIC facility contains equipment that allows researchers to view materials down to the submicron scale. Wil Srubar, one of the faculty members behind MIMIC – along with Principal Investigator Virginia Ferguson – emphasized the unique suite of characterization instruments at the facility.

“The high-resolution, 4D X-ray microscope and the coupled Raman-nanoindentation system are especially unique,” said Srubar, an associate professor of civil and architectural engineering and materials science. “Very few exist along the Front Range, so we are very lucky to have these exceptional resources right here at the ���ϳԹ�.”

Srubar is just one of the faculty members using the equipment i