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Upcoming Events

Innovation Networking Event 2026

Thursday, November 12, 2026
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEEC C120

Register now!

The Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) invites researchers, students, industry partners and collaborators to attend the 2nd Annual COSINC Networking Event on November 12, 2026, at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC) Building.

Building on the momentum of last year's inaugural COSINC User Symposium, this year's event will bring together members of Colorado's research and innovation community for a full day of scientific discovery, professional networking and collaboration.

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn how our state-of-the-art facilities are enabling groundbreaking research across disciplines while fostering partnerships between academia, industry and government. The event will also feature updates on the NSF-funded National Quantum Nanofabrication Facility, highlighting emerging capabilities that are helping advance quantum research and technology development.

Lunch, refreshments and an evening networking reception will be provided.

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Past Events

  • November 18 鈥撎COSINC and MIMIC Virtual Open House:听Hands-on demonstrations on X-ray and Electron Microscopy
  • January 29听鈥撎(click on link to access videos)
  • January 8听鈥撎"SEM2 and EDS" with SEM2 office hours
  • April 22听鈥撎淓nergy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (Oxford Aztec-EDS),鈥 Oxford Instruments, Presenter: Warren J. MorberlyChan, Ph.D., Microscopist
  • April 30听鈥 Cryo Dual Beams, Where Are We in 2020,鈥 Thermo Fisher Scientific, Presenter: Rick Passey, Product and Application Scientist
  • May 4听鈥 "Basics of Plasma, Reactors and Etching," Plasma Therm, Presenter: David Lishan, Ph.D., Principal Scientist
  • May 14听鈥撎淟earn how to write Nanometer,鈥澨齊aith Nanofabrication (Electron Beam Lithography), Presenters: Andre Linden, Application Engineer; Marc Wijnands, Software and Application Engineer

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Research & Publications

Research enabled by the COSINC facility is listed below. If you have an item to add to this list, please contact

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    • xxx was performed at COSINC-(FAB or CHR), 麻豆免费版下载Boulder (RRID:SCR_018985)
  • Avila, V., Yoon, B., Ingraci Neto, R. R., Silva, R. S., Ghose, S., Raj, R., & Jesus, L. M. (2020). Reactive flash sintering of the complex oxide Li0.5La0.5TiO3 starting from an amorphous precursor powder. Scripta Materialia, 176, 78鈥82.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Cho, S. K., Su, L.-J., Mao, C., Wolenski, C. D., Flaig, T. W., & Park, W. (2019). Multifunctional nanoclusters of NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ upconversion nanoparticle and gold nanorod for simultaneous imaging and targeted chemotherapy of bladder cancer. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 97, 784鈥792.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Maharaj, F. D. R., & Marshak, M. P. (2020). Titanium-Anthraquinone Material as a New Design Approach for Electrodes in Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries. Energies, 13(7), 1722.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • O鈥橳oole, R. J., Buur, P. J., Gump, C. J., Musgrave, C. B., & Weimer, A. W. (2020). Solid鈥恠tate sintering of core鈥恠hell ceramic powders fabricated by particle atomic layer deposition. Journal of the American Ceramic Society.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Tao, R., Shen, X., Hu, Y., Kang, K., Zheng, Y., Luo, S., Yang, S., Li, W., Lu, S., Jin, Y., Qiu, L., & Zhang, W. (2020). Phosphine鈥怋ased Covalent Organic Framework for the Controlled Synthesis of Broad鈥怱cope Ultrafine Nanoparticles. Small, 16(8), 1906005.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Wu, H., Sarfati, R., Wang, D., & Schwartz, D. K. (2020). Electrostatic Barriers to Nanoparticle Accessibility of a Porous Matrix. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(10), 4696鈥4704.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听
  • Avila, V., & Raj, R. (2019). Flash sintering of ceramic films: The influence of surface to volume ratio. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102(6), 3063鈥3069.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Avila, V., & Raj, R. (2019). Reactive flash sintering of powders of four constituents into a single phase of a complex oxide in a few seconds below 700掳C. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102(11), 6443鈥6448.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Cai, Y., & Schwartz, D. K. (2018). Single-nanoparticle tracking reveals mechanisms of membrane fouling. Journal of Membrane Science, 563, 888鈥895.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Cox, L. M., Blevins, A. K., Drisko, J. A., Qi, Y., Ding, Y., Fiedler鈥怘iggins, C. I., Long, R., Bowman, C. N., & Killgore, J. P. (2019). Tunable Mechanical Anisotropy, Crack Guiding, and Toughness Enhancement in Two鈥怱tage Reactive Polymer Networks. Advanced Engineering Materials, 21(8), 1900578.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Dischinger, S. M., Rosenblum, J., Noble, R. D., & Gin, D. L. (2019). Evaluation of a nanoporous lyotropic liquid crystal polymer membrane for the treatment of hydraulic fracturing produced water via cross-flow filtration. Journal of Membrane Science, 592, 117313.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Dunn, C. A., Shi, Z., Zhou, R., Gin, D. L., & Noble, R. D. (2019). (Cross-Linked Poly(Ionic Liquid)鈥揑onic Liquid鈥揨eolite) Mixed-Matrix Membranes for CO2/CH4 Gas Separations Based on Curable Ionic Liquid Prepolymers. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 58(11), 4704鈥4708.听听 听听
  • Dwulet, G. E., Dischinger, S. M., McGrath, M. J., Basalla, A. J., Malecha, J. J., Noble, R. D., & Gin, D. L. (2019). Breathable, Polydopamine-Coated Nanoporous Membranes That Selectively Reject Nerve and Blister Agent Simulant Vapors. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 58(47), 21890鈥21893.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Grayson, M., Zohrabi, M., Bae, K., Zhu, J., Gopinath, J. T., & Park, W. (2019). Enhancement of third-order nonlinearity of thermally evaporated GeSbSe waveguides through annealing. Optics Express, 27(23), 33606.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Greydanus, B., Schwartz, D. K., & Medlin, J. W. (2019). Controlling Catalyst-Phase Selectivity in Complex Mixtures with Amphiphilic Janus Particles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12(2), 2338鈥2345.听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Hu, Y., Dunlap, N., Wan, S., Lu, S., Huang, S., Sellinger, I., 鈥 Zhang, W. (2019). Crystalline Lithium Imidazolate Covalent Organic Frameworks with High Li-Ion Conductivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(18), 7518鈥7525.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Jacobson, D. R., Uyetake, L., & Perkins, T. T. (2019). Membrane-Protein Unfolding Intermediates Detected with Enhanced Precision Using a Zigzag Force Ramp. Biophysical Journal.听听 听 听 听 听
  • Kociolek, J. P., Williams, D. M., Stepanek, J., Liu, Q., Liu, Y., You, Q., Karthick, B., & Kulikovskiy, M. (2019). Rampant homoplasy and adaptive radiation in pennate diatoms. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 152(2), 131鈥141.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Mao, C., Min, K., Bae, K., Cho, S., Xu, T., Jeon, H., & Park, W. (2019). Enhanced Upconversion Luminescence by Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Structure. ACS Photonics, 6(8), 1882鈥1888.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • McGrath, M. J., Hardy, S. H., Basalla, A. J., Dwulet, G. E., Manubay, B. C., Malecha, J. J., Shi, Z., Funke, H. H., Gin, D. L., & Noble, R. D. (2019). Polymerization of Counteranions in the Cationic Nanopores of a Cross-linked Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Network to Modify Ion Transport Properties. ACS Materials Letters, 1(4), 452鈥458.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • O鈥橳oole, R. J., Bartel, C. J., Kodas, M. U., Horrell, A. J., Ricote, S., Sullivan, N. P., 鈥 Weimer, A. W. (2018). Particle atomic layer deposition of alumina for sintering yttria鈥恠tabilized cubic zirconia. Journal of the American Ceramic Society.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Stepanek, J. G., & Patrick Kociolek, J. (2019). Molecular phylogeny of the diatom generaAmphoraandHalamphora(Bacillariophyta) with a focus on morphological and ecological evolution. Journal of Phycology, 55(2), 442鈥456.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Wang, D., Wu, H., Liu, L., Chen, J., & Schwartz, D. K. (2019). Diffusive Escape of a Nanoparticle from a Porous Cavity. Physical Review Letters, 123(11).听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Wang, M., Stafford, C. M., Cox, L. M., Blevins, A. K., Aghajani, M., Killgore, J. P., & Ding, Y. (2019). Controlled Growth of Polyamide Films atop Homogenous and Heterogeneous Hydrogels Using Gel鈥揕iquid Interfacial Polymerization. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 1900100.听听 听听
  • Yoon, B., Avila, V., Raj, R., & Jesus, L. M. (2020). Reactive flash sintering of the entropy-stabilized oxide Mg0.2Ni0.2Co0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2O. Scripta Materialia, 181, 48鈥52.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Yoon, B., Yadav, D., Ghose, S., Sarin, P., & Raj, R. (2019). On the synchronicity of flash sintering and phase transformation. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102(6), 3110鈥3116.听
  • Zhang, Y., Hu, Y., Zhao, J., Park, E., Jin, Y., Liu, Q., & Zhang, W. (2019). Covalent organic framework-supported Fe鈥揟iO2 nanoparticles as ambient-light-active photocatalysts. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7(27), 16364鈥16371.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Aghajani, M., Wang, M., Cox, L. M., Killgore, J. P., Greenberg, A. R., & Ding, Y. (2018). Influence of support-layer deformation on the intrinsic resistance of thin film composite membranes. Journal of Membrane Science, 567, 49鈥57.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Das, A., Mao, C., Cho, S., Kim, K., & Park, W. (2018). Over 1000-fold enhancement of upconversion luminescence using water-dispersible metal-insulator-metal nanostructures. Nature Communications, 9(1).听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • He, L., Mao, C., Brasino, M., Harguindey, A., Park, W., Goodwin, A. P., & Cha, J. N. (2018). TiO2-Capped Gold Nanorods for Plasmon-Enhanced Production of Reactive Oxygen Species and Photothermal Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Agents. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(33), 27965鈥27971.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Hou, D., Iddya, A., Chen, X., Wang, M., Zhang, W., Ding, Y., 鈥 Ren, Z. J. (2018). Nickel-Based Membrane Electrodes Enable High-Rate Electrochemical Ammonia Recovery. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(15), 8930鈥8938.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Mori, D. I., & Gin, D. L. (2018). Curable Ionic Liquid Prepolymer-Based Ion Gel Coating System for Toxic Industrial Chemical Hazard Mitigation on Porous Substrates. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 57(47), 16012鈥16020.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Shao, F., Dai, W., Zhang, Y., Zhang, W., Schl眉ter, A. D., & Zenobi, R. (2018). Chemical Mapping of Nanodefects within 2D Covalent Monolayers by Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. ACS Nano, 12(5), 5021鈥5029.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Stepanek, Joshua & Kociolek, Patrick. (2018). Amphora and Halamphora from coastal and inland waters of the United States and Japan, with the description of 33 new species. 听听 听 听听 听听听 听 听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Tan, L.-L., Zhu, Y., Jin, Y., Zhang, W., & Yang, Y.-W. (2018). Highly CO2 selective pillar[n]arene-based supramolecular organic frameworks. Supramolecular Chemistry, 30(7), 648鈥654.听听 听 听 听 听
  • Uzcategui, A. C., Muralidharan, A., Ferguson, V. L., Bryant, S. J., & McLeod, R. R. (2018). Understanding and Improving Mechanical Properties in 3D printed Parts Using a Dual-Cure Acrylate-Based Resin for Stereolithography. Advanced Engineering Materials, 20(12), 1800876.听听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听
  • Wang, D.-G., Li, N., Hu, Y., Wan, S., Song, M., Yu, G., 鈥 Zhang, W. (2018). Highly Fluoro-Substituted Covalent Organic Framework and Its Application in Lithium鈥揝ulfur Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(49), 42233鈥42240.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Yoon, B., Yadav, D., Ghose, S., & Raj, R. (2018). Reactive flash sintering: MgO and 伪鈥怉l 2 O 3 transform and sinter into single鈥恜hase polycrystals of MgAl 2 O 4. Journal of the American Ceramic Society.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Zou, Z., Zhu, C., Li, Y., Lei, X., Zhang, W., & Xiao, J. (2018). Rehealable, fully recyclable, and malleable electronic skin enabled by dynamic covalent thermoset nanocomposite. Science Advances, 4(2), eaaq0508.听听 听
  • Aghajani, M., Maruf, S. H., Wang, M., Yoshimura, J., Pichorim, G., Greenberg, A., & Ding, Y. (2017). Relationship between permeation and deformation for porous membranes. Journal of Membrane Science, 526, 293鈥300.听
  • Cai, Y., & Schwartz, D. K. (2017). Mapping the Functional Tortuosity and Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Porous Polymer Membranes with Super-Resolution Nanoparticle Tracking. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(49), 43258鈥43266.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Cox, L. M., Sun, X., Wang, C., Sowan, N., Killgore, J. P., Long, R., 鈥 Ding, Y. (2017). Light-Stimulated Permanent Shape Reconfiguration in Cross-Linked Polymer Microparticles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(16), 14422鈥14428.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Du, Y., Yang, H., Wan, S., Jin, Y., & Zhang, W. (2017). A titanium-based porous coordination polymer as a catalyst for chemical fixation of CO2. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(19), 9163鈥9168.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • He, L., Brasino, M., Mao, C., Cho, S., Park, W., Goodwin, A. P., & Cha, J. N. (2017). DNA-Assembled Core-Satellite Upconverting-Metal-Organic Framework Nanoparticle Superstructures for Efficient Photodynamic Therapy. Small, 13(24), 1700504.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Kang, G., Krogstad, M. R., Grayson, M., Kim, D.-G., Lee, H., Gopinath, J. T., & Park, W. (2017). High quality chalcogenide-silica hybrid wedge resonator. Optics Express, 25(13), 15581.听
  • Lowe, Rex & Kociolek, Patrick & Qingmin, You & Wang, Quanxi & Stepanek, Joshua. (2017). Lowe R.L., Kociolek, J.P., You, Q & Wang. Q. 2017. Diversity of the diatom genus Humidophila in karst areas of Guizhou, China. Phytotaxa 305: 269-284. Phytotaxa. 305. 269-284.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Lu, D., Das, A., & Park, W. (2017). Direct modeling of near field thermal radiation in a metamaterial. Optics Express, 25(11), 12999.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Lu, S., Hu, Y., Wan, S., McCaffrey, R., Jin, Y., Gu, H., & Zhang, W. (2017). Synthesis of Ultrafine and Highly Dispersed Metal Nanoparticles Confined in a Thioether-Containing Covalent Organic Framework and Their Catalytic Applications. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(47), 17082鈥17088.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Rickman, M., Maruf, S., Kujundzic, E., Davis, R. H., Greenberg, A., Ding, Y., & Pellegrino, J. (2017). Fractionation and flux decline studies of surface-patterned nanofiltration membranes using NaCl-glycerol-BSA solutions. Journal of Membrane Science, 527, 102鈥110.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Singh, Z. V., Tan, L.-L., Cowan, M. G., Yang, Y.-W., Zhang, W., Gin, D. L., & Noble, R. D. (2017). Pillar听[5]arene/Matrimid鈩 materials for high-performance methane purification membranes. Journal of Membrane Science, 539, 224鈥228.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Wang, M., Gorham, J. M., Killgore, J. P., Omidvar, M., Lin, H., DelRio, F. W., Cox, L. M., Zhang, Z., & Ding, Y. (2017). Formation of a Crack-Free, Hybrid Skin Layer with Tunable Surface Topography and Improved Gas Permeation Selectivity on Elastomers Using Gel鈥揕iquid Infiltration Polymerization. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(33), 28100鈥28106.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Xiaoping Yang, Lih-Jen Su, Francisco G. La Rosa, Elizabeth Erin Smith, Isabel R. Schlaepfer, Suehyun K. Cho, Brian Kavanagh, Wounjhang Park, & Thomas W. Flaig. (2017). The Antineoplastic Activity of Photothermal Ablative Therapy with Targeted Gold Nanorods in an Orthotopic Urinary Bladder Cancer Model. Bladder Cancer, 3(3), 201鈥210.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Yang, H., Zhu, Y., Du, Y., Tan, D., Jin, Y., & Zhang, W. (2017). Aromatic-rich hydrocarbon porous networks through alkyne metathesis. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 1(7), 1369鈥1372.听
  • Zhu, C., Xi, C., Doro, W., Wang, T., Zhang, X., Jin, Y., & Zhang, W. (2017). Tuning the physical properties of malleable and recyclable polyimine thermosets: the effect of solvent and monomer concentration. RSC Adv., 7(76), 48303鈥48307.听听听 听听
  • Budd, David A., Making Geologic Sense of Pore-System Characterizations in Carbonate-Rich Mudrocks: Examples from the Niobrara Formation, Houston Geological Society, Applied Geoscience Conference Proceedings: Integrated Approaches to Unconventional Reservoir Assessment and Optimization, 2016:10pp.听听 听 听听 听听听 听 听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • LI, J., KOCIOLEK, J. P., & GAO, Y. (2016). Chaetoceros coloradensis sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta, Chaetocerotaceae), a new inland species from Little Gaynor Lake, Colorado, North America. Phytotaxa, 255(3), 199.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Ress, J. A., Thomas, E. W., & Kociolek, J. P. (2016). Newly describedGomphonemaandGomphospheniafrom Rocky Mountain Front Range streams, Colorado, USA, with additional discussion of rarely reported taxa. Diatom Research, 31(1), 51鈥62.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Stepanek, J. G., & Kociolek, J. P. (2016). Re-examination of Mereschkowsky鈥檚 genusTetramphora(Bacillariophyta) and its separation from Amphora. Diatom Research, 31(2), 123鈥148.听
  • Stepanek, J. G., Fields, F. J., & Kociolek, J. P. (2016). A comparison of lipid content metrics using six species from the genus Halamphora (Bacillariophyta). Biofuels, 7(5), 521鈥528.听
  • Thomas, E. W., Stepanek, J. G., & Kociolek, J. P. (2016). Historical and Current Perspectives on the Systematics of the 鈥淓nigmatic鈥 Diatom Genus Rhoicosphenia (Bacillariophyta), with Single and Multi-Molecular Marker and Morphological Analyses and Discussion on the Monophyly of 鈥淢onoraphid鈥 Diatoms. PLOS ONE, 11(4), e0152797.听
  • Fields, F. J., & Kociolek, J. P. (2015). An evolutionary perspective on selecting high-lipid-content diatoms (Bacillariophyta). Journal of Applied Phycology, 27(6), 2209鈥2220.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Kociolek, J. P., & Williams, D. M. (2015). How to define a diatom genus? Notes on the creation and recognition of taxa, and a call for revisionary studies of diatoms. Acta Botanica Croatica, 74(2), 195鈥210.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Kociolek, J. P., Spaulding, S. A., & Lowe, R. L. (2015). Bacillariophyceae. In Freshwater Algae of North America (pp. 709鈥772).听
  • Kociolek, J. P., Theriot, E. C., Williams, D. M., Julius, M., Stoermer, E. F., & Kingston, J. C. (2015). Centric and Araphid Diatoms. In Freshwater Algae of North America (pp. 653鈥708). Elsevier.听
  • Kociolek, Patrick & Qingmin, You & Wang, Quanxi & Liu, Qi. (2015). Consideration of some interesting freshwater gomphonemoid diatoms from North America and China, and the description of Gomphosinica, gen. nov. Nova Hedwigia. 144. 175-198.
  • Kohler, T. J., KOPALOV脕, K., VAN DE VIJVER, B., & PATRICK KOCIOLEK, J. (2015). The genus Luticola D.G.Mann (Bacillariophyta) from the McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica, with the description of four new species. Phytotaxa, 208(2), 103.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • STEPANEK, J. G., & KOCIOLEK, J. P. (2015). Three new species of the diatom genus Halamphora (Bacillariophyta) from the prairie pothole lakes region of North Dakota, USA. Phytotaxa, 197(1), 27.听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
  • Thomas, E. W., & Kociolek, J. P. (2015). Taxonomy of three new Rhoicosphenia (Bacillariophyta) species from California, USA. Phytotaxa, 204(1), 1.听
  • Thomas, E. W., Kociolek, J. P., & Karthick, B. (2014). Four newRhoicospheniaspecies from fossil deposits in India and North America. Diatom Research, 30(1), 35鈥54.听DOI听