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Carson Bruns, assistant professor (ATLAS Institute, Mechanical Engineering), seeks to make creative use of molecular nanotechnology to engineer materials for applications ranging from biohacking to energy transduction. His research involves the fabrication of tiny molecular and particulate building blocks that build themselves into more sophisticated structures by a process of self-assembly. After receiving undergraduate degrees in chemistry and religion from Luther College and a doctorate in organic chemistry from Northwestern University, Carson spent three years as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley before joining the faculty at CU Boulder in 2017.

Projects

• ChemBot
• Slide-Ring Materials
• Tech Tattoos
• Colloidal Rotaxanes: Polymer Particles with Mechanical Bonds

Publications

2023

Purnendu, Jess Hartcher‑O’Brien, Vatsal Mehta, Nicholas Colonnese, Aakar Gupta, Carson Bruns, Priyanshu Agarwal. 2023. "".  In: Proceedings of IEEE World Haptics Conference (Delft, Netherlands, July 10–13, 2023)

Karan Dikshit and Carson J. Bruns. 2023. "". In: Supramolecular Nanotechnology: Advanced Design of Self‐Assembled Functional Materials 2. (April 21, 2023)

Samuel C. Lamont, Kyle Weishaar, Carson J. Bruns, and Franck J. Vernerey. 2023. "". In: Physical Review E 107, no. 4. (April 1, 2023)

Karan Vivek Dikshit, Aseem Milind Visal, Femke Janssen, Alexander Larsen, and Carson J. Bruns. 2023. "". In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, no. 13.

2022

Madhur Atreya, Stacie Desousa, John-Baptist Kauzya, Evan Williams, Austin Hayes, Karan Dikshit, Jenna Nielson, Abigail Palmgren, Sara Khorchidian, Shangshi Liu, Anupam Gopalakrishnan, Eloise Bihar, Carson J. Bruns, Richard Bardgett, John N. Quinton, Jessica Davies, Jason C. Neff, Gregory L. Whiting. 2022. "." In: Advanced Science 10, no. 5. (December 11, 2022)

Madhur Atreya, John-Baptist Kauzya, Stacie DeSousa, Evan Williams, Austin Hayes, Karan Dikshit, Jenna Nielson, Abigail Palmgren, Sara Khorchidian, Shangshi Liu, Anupama Gopalakrishnan, Eloise Bihar, Carson Bruns, Richard Bardgett, John Quinton, Jessica Davies, Jason Neff, and Gregory Whiting. 2022. “.” No. EGU23-8573. In: Copernicus Meetings. (December 11, 2022)

Carson J. Bruns. 2022. "." In: Nature Nanotechnology. (December 9, 2022)

Carson J. Bruns, Wei Wang, and Keiji Hirose. 2022. "." In: Frontiers in Chemistry 10. (December 6, 2022)

Hyejin Kwon, Brian S. Newell and Carson J. Bruns. 2022. . First published Sept 7, 2022. Nanoscale, advance article 

JL Butterfield, GP Penoncello, KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns. . ACS Applied Nano Materials 2022, In Press. 

KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns. . Front. Chem. 2022.

H Kwon, CJ Bruns. . Nano Research 2022, 15, 5545–5555.

Xin Zhou, Hyejin Kwon, Richard R. Thompson, Robert J. Herman,  Frank R. Fronczek, Carson J. Bruns and Semin Lee. 2021. . Chemical Communications 2021, 10809–10956. (Oct. 25, 2021).

KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns. . Soft Matter 2021, 17, 5248–5257. 

Purnendu, Sasha M Novack, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mirela Alistar, Mark D Gross, Carson Bruns, and Daniel Leithinger. 2021. . Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1280–1290. (June 28-July 2, 2021–Virtual Event).

Purnendu, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mark D. Gross, Carson Bruns, Daniel Leithinger. 2021. . In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '21 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. (Yokohama, Japan–May 8-13, 2021).

A Parameswar, KV Dikshit, S Movafaghi, CJ Bruns, AP Goodwin.  ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2021, 13, 1486–1492. (December 28, 2020).

Butterfield JL, Keyser SP, Dikshit KV, Kwon H, Koster MI, Bruns CJ. 2020. Solar Freckles: Long-Term Photochromic Tattoos for Intradermal Ultraviolet Radiometry. ACS Nano. 2020 Oct 27;14(10):13619-13628. doi: . Epub 2020 Sep 22. PMID: 32961057. 

M Atreya, K Dikshit, G Marinick, J Nielson, C Bruns, GL Whiting. Poly(lactic acid)-Based Ink for Biodegradable Printed Electronics With Conductivity Enhanced Through Solvent Aging. ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2020, 12, 23494–23501. (April 24, 2020). DOI: 

Bruns, C. J.. Symmetry 2019, 11, 1249.

Bruns, C. J. . TEDxMileHigh Blog. 2019.

CJ Bruns, JF Stoddart, The Nature of the Mechanical Bond: From Molecules to Machines. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. 761 pp. ISBN: 9781119044000.

CJ Bruns, H Liu, MB Francis. Near-Quantitative Aqueous Synthesis of Rotaxanes via Bioconjugation to Oligopeptides and Proteins. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 15307­–15310.

CJ Bruns, JF Stoddart. Rotaxane-Based Molecular Muscles. Acc. Chem. Res. 2014, 47, 2186–2199.

CJ Bruns, D Fujita, M Hoshino, S Sato, JF Stoddart, M Fujita. Emergent Ion-Gated Binding of Cationic Host-Guest Complexes Within Cationic M₁₂L₂₄Molecular Flasks. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 12027–12034.

CJ Bruns, DJ Herman, JB Minuzzo, JA Lehrman, SI Stupp. Rationalizing Molecular Design in the Electrodeposition of Anisotropic Lamellar Nanostructures. Chem. Mater. 2013, 25, 4330–4339.