The Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials, directed by Carson Bruns, manipulates matter on the smallest of scales to create materials with emergent properties, characterized by novel and sometimes surprising features arising from the interactions of multiple bodies. By synthesizing, assembling, combining听and organizing nanoscale building blocks, we design technologies that enhance the quality of human lives in the domains of health, energy, sensory augmentation听and self-expression.
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Publications
Jesse L. Butterfield, Jennifer R. Quigley, Carson J. Bruns. 2024. "". In:听Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 34, Issue 40.听(October听2024).
John-Baptist Kauzya,听Brandon Hayes,听Austin C. Hayes,听Jamie F. Thompson,听Charlotte Bellerjeau,听Kent Evans,听Jorge Osio-Norgaard,听Gaurang Gavai,听Karan Dikshit,听Carson Bruns,听Robert MacCurdy, Robert A. Street,听Gregory L. Whiting. 2024. "". In:听Acta Astronautica, Volume 219.听(June 2024).
Purnendu, Jess Hartcher鈥慜鈥橞rien, Vatsal Mehta, Nicholas Colonnese, Aakar Gupta,听Carson Bruns, Priyanshu Agarwal. 2023. "". 听In:听Proceedings of IEEE World Haptics Conference.听(Delft, Netherlands, July 10鈥�13, 2023).
Karan Dikshit听and听Carson J. Bruns. 2023. "". In:听Supramolecular Nanotechnology: Advanced Design of Self鈥怉ssembled Functional Materials 2. (April 21, 2023).
Samuel C. Lamont, Kyle Weishaar,听Carson J. Bruns, and Franck J. Vernerey. 2023. "". In:听Physical Review E 107, no. 4. (April 1, 2023).
Karan Vivek Dikshit, Aseem Milind Visal, Femke Janssen, Alexander Larsen, and听Carson J. Bruns. 2023. "". In:听ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, no. 13.
Hyejin Kwon, Brian S. Newell,听Carson J. Bruns. 2022. . In: Nanoscale. (Sept 7, 2022).听
JL Butterfield, GP Penoncello,听KV Dikshit,听CJ Bruns. A Photochromic Intradermal Smart Tattoo Based on Diarylethene-Doped Polystyrene Nanoparticles for Personal听纬-Ray Dosimetry.听ACS Applied Nano Materials听2022,听In Press.听
KV Dikshit,听CJ Bruns. Chemorheological Monitoring of Cross-Linking in Slide-Ring Gels Derived from听a-Cyclodextrin Polyrotaxanes.听Front. Chem.听2022,听.
H Kwon,听CJ Bruns.听.听Nano Research听2022,听15, 5545鈥�5555.
Xin Zhou,听Hyejin Kwon,听Richard R. Thompson,听Robert J. Herman,听听Frank R. Fronczek,听Carson J. Bruns听and听Semin Lee. 2021. Scalable synthesis of [8]cycloparaphenyleneacetylene carbon nanohoop using alkyne metathesis.听Chemical Communications 2021, 10809鈥�10956.听. (Oct. 25, 2021).
KV Dikshit,听CJ Bruns. Post-Synthesis Modification of Slide-Ring Gels for Thermal and Mechanical Reconfiguration. Soft Matter 2021, 17, 5248鈥�5257.
Purnendu,听S Novack, E Acome, C Keplinger,听M Alistar,听MD Gross,听C Bruns,听D Leithinger.听2021.听,听 In听Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS 鈥�21),听ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. (June 28-July 2,听2021鈥�Virtual Event).
Purnendu, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mark D. Gross, Carson Bruns, Daniel Leithinger. 2021. Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '21 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. (Yokohama, Japan鈥揗ay 8-13, 2021).听.
A Parameswar, KV Dikshit, S Movafaghi, CJ Bruns, AP Goodwin. ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2021, 13, 1486鈥�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.听
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鈥�23501. (April 24, 2020). DOI:
Bruns, C. J.听Symmetry听2019,听11, 1249.听
Bruns, C. J.听.听TEDxMileHigh Blog.听2019.
CJ Bruns, JF Stoddart,听The Nature of the Mechanical Bond: From Molecules to Machines. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. 761 pp. ISBN: 9781119044000.
