Core Facilities
UT’s world-class facilities provide shared access to leading-edge equipment, technologies, and expert services that enhance faculty research as well as projects with external industry, government, and community partners. To learn more about the core facility program or to schedule an in-person tour of one or more of our user facilities and learn about our safety requirements, contact [email protected].
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For more information about the core facility program at UT, please contact [email protected].
Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Center
The AMIC is a multidisciplinary facility that provides access to microscopes and imaging services as well as expert consultation services.
Biological Mass Spectrometry Core
The BMSC houses eight mass spectrometers and multiple computer workstations for data analysis, and it provides project consultations and analytical services.
Electromagnetic Properties Lab
The EMP provides access to both physical property measurement systems and SQUID vibrating sample magnometer apparatus.
Electron Microscopy Center
The EMC provides electron and ion microscopy resources for researchers in the UT system, ORNL, other institutions, and external partners.
Genomics Core
The Genomics Core provides UT faculty, staff, students, and off-campus users with access to state-of-the-art sequencing and library prep equipment and training.
Laboratory for Environmental Archaeology
The LEA is a multidisciplinary core facility that provides services for the characterization of archaeological and environmental materials.
Manufacturing Core at UT
MCUT supports advanced manufacturing needs at UT and the local area by offering diverse additive and subtractive manufacturing services.
Polymer Characterization Laboratory
The PCL is one of the premier academic laboratories in the world for researching novel properties of newly designed polymeric materials.
X-Ray Diffraction
The XRD enables users to perform conventional, grazing incidence, and high-resolution XRD, as well as texture/pole figure, fiber, and high-temperature experiments.
Other shared facilities
Advanced Photoelectron Spectrometer
Photoemission experiments for analysis of the chemical and electronic properties of various forms of condensed matter
Tennessee Ion Beam Materials Laboratory
Ion beam analysis, materials modification, ion-solid interactions, and applied research on radiation effects in materials for nuclear and space applications
Micro-Processing Research Facility
Micro-processing fabrication processes in support of cutting-edge investigations in materials science and engineering
Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Materials synthesis processes for the study of solar-energy materials, photo-catalytic materials, superconducting materials, and condensed matter systems