NSF Renews Funding for the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing

Publication date: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 - 9:47pm

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support a national research center on nanomanufacturing. The grant will fund the university's Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM), co-directed by Physics Professor Mark Tuominen. The CHM specializes in the science and engineering of creating nanometer-scale structures as building blocks for manufacturing device components and systems.  With the new grant, the CHM will turn its attention to a large-volume, low-cost, roll-to-roll manufacturing processes currently used in the advanced printing, coating and flexible electronics industries. ...more