The UT Core Facilities are shared resources, available to all UT researchers and industry partners, often on a fee for service basis. These facilities offer access to high-end instrumentation, technical support, and expert consultation to the University of Tennessee research community and, in many cases, to external customers as well.
The Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development has contracted with Stratocore, a billing and scheduling system for use by UT Core Facilities. Stratocore will make interacting with the cores a seamless process and help these facilities streamline their accounting process. Click here for more information about creating a Stratocore account.

The AMIC is a multi-disciplinary facility that provides access to microscopes and imaging services, as well as expert consultation services.

The APS is a state-of-the-art experimental facility for analysis of chemical and electronic properties of various forms of condensed matter.

The BSMMSC provides metabolomics, lipidomics, and small molecule analyses.

CEB’s bioimaging facility provides cutting-edge microscopic and macroscopic imaging, as well as flow cytometry and cell sorting instrumentation

The EMP provides access to both Physical Property Measurement Systems (PPMS) and SQUID Vibrating Sample Magnometer (SVSM).

The Electron Microscopy facility provides electron and ion microscopy resources for all researchers in the UT system, ORNL, and other institutions.

The IBML is a multi-user, multidisciplinary facility that provides ion beam analysis, ion implantation, ion beam modification and ion irradiation services.

The LEA is a multidisciplinary core facility that provides services for the characterization of archaeological and environmental materials.

The MABE Maker Lab is designed to give UT undergraduate and graduate students hands-on experience with industrial technologies.

The MPRF provides researchers the ability to conduct micro-processing fabrication processes.

UT’s Department of Chemistry is equipped with five NMR spectrometers used in research and teaching.

The Polymer Characterization Laboratory (PCL) is one of the premier academic laboratories in the world for characterizing polymers.

The User eXperience and Message Effects Core Facility (UXL) allows researchers to test how people interact with a variety of technologies.

Sanger sequencing
Next-generation Illumina sequencing
The UT Genomics Core specializes in sequencing and analysis of DNA.

The WQCF is a world-class laboratory analytical services organization that specializes in providing analyses of aqueous samples.

The X-Ray Diffraction Core Facility provides users to perform conventional XRD, grazing incidence XRD, high-resolution XRD, texture/pole figure experiments, fiber experiments, and high temperature experiments.