Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing

advanced materials & manufacturing

Advancing our understanding of materials and facilitating the translation of new knowledge into solutions, products, and services that benefit our global society

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Preparing future generations

Training innovators and entrepreneurs for the universities and industries of the future

Putting Ideas To Work

Collaborating across disciplines to advance fundamental and translational research

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Powering the economy

Place-based innovation and partnerships for economic and community growth

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Research Areas

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Advanced Manufacturing

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Advanced Materials

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Post-Doctoral Researcher Amine Benkechkache and student Lance Drouet conduct research in a class 100 clean room at the Mirco-Processing Research Facility housed within UT’s new Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing located at Cherokee Farm on April 05, 2022. Photo by Steven Bridges/University of Tennessee

Materials for Extremes

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William Henkin, wearing a VW shirt, works with tensile testing of glass fiber reinforced polymeric (GFRP) composites in a lab inside the Science & Engineering Building SERF 104 105 on December 02, 2022. Photo by Steven Bridges/University of Tennessee.

Polymer Science

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Adrian Del Maestro discusses formulas with a student on his office window int he IAMM building on April 01, 2022. Photo by Steven Bridges/University of Tennessee

Quantum Materials

World-Class Faculty

Faculty are leaders in their fields, advancing our fundamental understanding of matter and designing and engineering solutions for industry and other partners.

Meet Our Faculty

The university is recruiting faculty who share a passion for working together to tackle grand challenges facing Tennessee and beyond as part of its Cluster Hire Initiatives. Visit the Cluster Hire Initiatives website to learn more.

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Centers of Excellence

Through a number of centers of excellence, IAMM unites faculty, staff, and students with external collaborators to drive forward cutting-edge research and enriching educational experiences.

View IAMM’s CEnters of Excellence
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IAMM News

  • Orlando J. Rojas, who has been named University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Circular Biomaterials. Photo by Kai Jacobson/UBC Faculty of Applied Science

    UT Names Governor’s Chair for Circular Biomaterials

    Orlando J. Rojas, an internationally recognized leader in sustainable materials science, has been named the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Circular Biomaterials. Rojas’ work centers on soft matter. He seeks to understand how nature assembles complex, hierarchical materials from abundant molecular building blocks, and to translate those principles into industrially relevant, sustainable and cost-effective technologies.

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  • Deep Jariwala

    UT Names New Governor’s Chair for Quantum Devices

    Jariwala, a leading scholar in quantum materials and next-generation electronic devices, studies novel materials that can be used to create “microchips of the future.” He will establish a new research lab for material deposition and characterization, building on UT’s existing expertise in quantum materials and expanding the university’s leadership in artificial intelligence.

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  • Exterior of John D. Tickle Engineering Building on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus

    Kalinin Receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award

    Sergei Kalinin, Weston Fulton Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in UT’s Tickle College of Engineering, has received a 2026 SEC Faculty Achievement Award for driving innovation at the intersection of artificial intelligence and materials science.

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