Carson Bruns
Assistant Professor • Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials • CREATIVE MOLECULAR NANOTECH • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ATLS 231A

Fall 2020 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:35-5:00 pm

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

Publications

2023

Purnendu, Jess HartcherOBrien, Vatsal Mehta, Nicholas Colonnese, Aakar Gupta,泭Carson Bruns, Priyanshu Agarwal. 2023. "". 泭In:泭Proceedings of IEEE World Haptics Conference泭(Delft, Netherlands, July 1013, 2023)

Karan Dikshit泭硃紳餃泭Carson J. Bruns. 2023. "". In:泭Supramolecular Nanotechnology: Advanced Design of SelfAssembled Functional Materials 2. (April 21, 2023)

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

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

2022

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

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

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

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

Hyejin Kwon, Brian S. Newell and泭Carson J. Bruns. 2022. Redox-switchable hostguest complexes of metallocenes and [8]cycloparaphenylene. First published Sept 7, 2022. Nanoscale, advance article泭

JL Butterfield, GP Penoncello,泭KV Dikshit,泭CJ Bruns. A Photochromic Intradermal Smart Tattoo Based on Diarylethene-Doped Polystyrene Nanoparticles for Personal泭帠-Ray Dosimetry.泭ACS Applied Nano Materials2022,泭In Press.泭 泭

KV Dikshit,泭CJ Bruns. Chemorheological Monitoring of Cross-Linking in Slide-Ring Gels Derived from泭a-Cyclodextrin Polyrotaxanes.泭Front. Chem.2022,泭.

H Kwon,泭CJ Bruns.泭.泭Nano Research泭2022,泭15, 55455555.

Xin Zhou,泭Hyejin Kwon,泭Richard R. Thompson,泭Robert J. Herman,泭泭Frank R. Fronczek,泭Carson J. Bruns泭硃紳餃泭Semin Lee. 2021. Scalable synthesis of [8]cycloparaphenyleneacetylene carbon nanohoop using alkyne metathesis.泭Chemical Communications 2021, 1080910956.泭. (Oct. 25, 2021).

KV Dikshit,泭CJ Bruns. Post-Synthesis Modification of Slide-Ring Gels for Thermal and Mechanical Reconfiguration. Soft Matter 2021, 17, 52485257.泭

Purnendu,泭Sasha M Novack, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger,泭Mirela Alistar,泭Mark D Gross,泭Carson Bruns, and泭Daniel Leithinger. 2021. Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces.泭Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 12801290. DOI:泭(June 28-July 2,泭2021Virtual Event).

Purnendu, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger,泭Mark D. Gross,泭Carson Bruns,泭Daniel Leithinger.泭2021. Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces. In泭CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts泭(CHI '21 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.泭. (Yokohama, JapanMay 8-13, 2021).泭.

A Parameswar,泭KV Dikshit, S Movafaghi,泭CJ Bruns, AP Goodwin.泭泭ACS Appl. Mater. Interf.泭2021,泭13, 14861492. (December 28, 2020).

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

M Atreya,泭K Dikshit, G Marinick, J Nielson,泭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, 2349423501. (April 24, 2020). DOI:泭

Bruns, C. J.Symmetry2019,泭11, 1249. DOI:泭

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

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

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

CJ Bruns, JF Stoddart. Rotaxane-Based Molecular Muscles.泭Acc. Chem. Res.2014,泭47, 21862199.

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.泭J. Am. Chem. Soc.2014,泭136, 1202712034.

CJ Bruns,泭DJ Herman, JB Minuzzo, JA Lehrman, SI Stupp. Rationalizing Molecular Design in the Electrodeposition of Anisotropic Lamellar Nanostructures.泭Chem. Mater.2013,泭25, 43304339.