The NCF provides a centralized facility offering affordable access to researchers from academia, industry, and government laboratories throughout Colorado for synthesizing and testing novel nano-structured materials and systems.
Located on the Discovery Learning Center’s 2B level, the facility is designed to position CU and its collaborators on the cusp of the nano-revolution by providing a facility to both educate students and avail itself to a community of top-notch researchers from academia, government labs and industry representing a variety of disciplines.
The laboratory equipment provides users with a broad range of the latest-cutting edge technology allowing fabrication, characterization, imaging and probing of structures and materials on the nano-scale in multiple environments. The facility provides:
- affordable access to our state-of-the-art instruments;
- personalized training on operation of instruments by our experienced staff;
- online user-scheduled instrument reservations on a first-come, first-served basis;
- a gateway to an expanding CU-wide network of nano instrumentation and services.
Contact
Kathy Schrader
303-492-0734
ncf@colorado.edu
Website
http://ncf.colorado.edu
Assistant Professor of electrical engineering Won Park and graduate student Jihye Ahn size up some gold nanorods for use in a screening chip they are developing for melanoma using the NCF’s field emission scanning electron microscope.
“The NCF has provided me with an amazing opportunity to work with cutting-edge nano-characterization instrumentation as well as to teach others how to use them. I’ve really enjoyed the opportunity to interact with researchers from a variety of scientific disciplines―from geochemists to bioengineers―and know that everyone is getting something from the experience.”
―Jessica Rouge, doctoral candidate in chemistry and biochemistry