VIDEO: Take a glimpse into what nanomanufacturing assembly lines will look like

05/21/2014 - 00:00

NSF's Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing proves good test bed for large-scale nanomanufacturing designs

There's no shortage of ideas about how to use nanotechnology, but one of the major hurdles is how to manufacture some of the new products on a large scale. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst chemical engineer Jim Watkins and his team are working to make nanotechnology more practical for industrial-scale manufacturing.

READ MORE ON NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION