CarsonBruns

  • Associate Professor
  • Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials
  • CREATIVE MOLECULAR NANOTECH
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
  • ATLAS INSTITUTE
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Address

ATLS 231A

Office Hours

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 Ҵýƽ in 2017.

Carson Bruns is the director of the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab at the ATLAS Institute.

Projects

PublicationsDiane N. Jung, Caleb Escobedo, Noah Liska, Maitrey Gramopadhye, Daniel Szafir, Alessandro Roncone, and Carson J. Bruns. 2026. "". In: Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). (Edinburgh, Scotland, March 16-19, 2026).

Diane Jung,Kailey Shara andCarson Bruns. 2025. “”. In: PLoS One 20(8). (August 12, 2025).

Jung DN, Burleson G,Bruns CJ. "." In:Proceedings of the ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 4: 22nd International Conference on Design Education (DEC); 30th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference (DFMLC); 37th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM). (Anaheim, CA, August 17–20, 2025).

Jesse L. Butterfield, Jennifer R. Quigley, Carson J. Bruns. 2024. "". In:Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 34, Issue 40.(October2024).

DN Jung, CJ Bruns.2024. "". 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC-2024). (Washington, DC, August 25-28, 2024).

John-Baptist Kauzya,Brandon Hayes,Austin C. Hayes,Jamie F. Thompson,Charlotte Bellerjeau,Kent Evans,Jorge Osio-Norgaard,Gaurang Gavai,Karan Dikshit,Carson Bruns,Robert MacCurdy, Robert A. Street,Gregory L. Whiting. 2024. "". In:Acta Astronautica, Volume 219.(June 2024).

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. . In: Nanoscale. (Sept 7, 2022).

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

KV Dikshit,CJ Bruns. 2022. "".In: Front. Chem.

H Kwon,CJ Bruns.2022. .In: Nano Research2022,15.

Xin Zhou,Hyejin Kwon,Richard R. Thompson,Robert J. Herman,Frank R. Fronczek,Carson J. BrunsandSemin Lee. 2021. ".In: Chemical Communications 2021. (Oct. 25, 2021).

KV Dikshit,CJ Bruns. 2021. "". In: Soft Matter 2021, 17.

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. "". In: ACS Nano. (October 27, 2020).

M Atreya, K Dikshit, G Marinick, J Nielson, C Bruns, GL Whiting. "". In: ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. (April 24, 2020).

Bruns, C. J. 2019. "In: Symmetry.

Bruns, C. J.2019. "". In:TEDxMileHigh Blog.

CJ Bruns, JF Stoddart. 2016."The Nature of the Mechanical Bond: From Molecules to Machines. ISBN: 9781119044000.

CJ Bruns,H Liu, MB Francis. 2016. "Near-Quantitative Aqueous Synthesis of Rotaxanes via Bioconjugation to Oligopeptides and Proteins".In: J. Am. Chem. Soc.

CJ Bruns, JF Stoddart. 2014. "Rotaxane-Based Molecular Muscles".In: Acc. Chem. Res.

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". In:J. Am. Chem. Soc.

CJ Bruns,DJ Herman, JB Minuzzo, JA Lehrman, SI Stupp. "Rationalizing Molecular Design in the Electrodeposition of Anisotropic Lamellar Nanostructures".In: Chem. Mater.