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, combiningand organizing nanoscale building blocks, we design technologies that enhance the quality of human lives in the domains of health, energy, sensory augmentationand self-expression.
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Publications
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 DikshitandCarson 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, andCarson J. Bruns. 2023. "". In:ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, no. 13.
Hyejin Kwon, Brian S. Newell,Carson J. Bruns. 2022. Redox-switchable host–guest complexes of metallocenes and [8]cycloparaphenylene. First published Sept 7, 2022. Nanoscale, advance article
JL Butterfield, GP Penoncello,KV Dikshit,CJ Bruns. A Photochromic Intradermal Smart Tattoo Based on Diarylethene-Doped Polystyrene Nanoparticles for Personalγ-Ray Dosimetry.ACS Applied Nano Materials2022,In Press.
KV Dikshit,CJ Bruns. Chemorheological Monitoring of Cross-Linking in Slide-Ring Gels Derived froma-Cyclodextrin Polyrotaxanes.Front. Chem.2022,.
H Kwon,CJ Bruns..Nano Research2022,15, 5545–5555.
Xin Zhou,Hyejin Kwon,Richard R. Thompson,Robert J. Herman,Frank R. Fronczek,Carson J. BrunsandSemin Lee. 2021. Scalable synthesis of [8]cycloparaphenyleneacetylene carbon nanohoop using alkyne metathesis.Chemical Communications 2021, 10809–10956.. (Oct. 25, 2021).
KV Dikshit,CJ Bruns. Post-Synthesis Modification of Slide-Ring Gels for Thermal and Mechanical Reconfiguration. Soft Matter 2021, 17, 5248–5257.
Purnendu,S Novack, E Acome, C Keplinger,M Alistar,MD Gross,C Bruns,D Leithinger.2021., InDesigning Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS ’21),ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. (June 28-July 2,2021–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–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.Symmetry2019,11, 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.