Welcome to the University Of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM), made possible through a five-year, $16 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The CHM’s mission is to conduct to leading research in nanotechnology and to foster the development of new advances from laboratory innovation to manufacturable components and devices. Hierarchical Manufacturing refers to the sequential process of fabricating functional nanostructures of specified size, morphology and composition, then integrating the nanostructures into device elements, and finally integrating the elements into systems and products. The CHM's research focus includes both tool and process development.
The CHM is the latest example of a decade-long process of investment and achievement in nanotechnology research at Massachusetts’ flagship public research university. More than 50 faculty from eight departments at UMass Amherst conduct research on nanotechnology, coordinated through the MassNanoTech Institute campus-wide initiative.
