CarsonBruns
- Associate 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 in 2017.
Projects
- ChemBot
- Slide-Ring Materials
- Tech Tattoos
- Colloidal Rotaxanes: Polymer Particles with Mechanical Bonds
- Robochemistry
Publications
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.
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 andCarson J. Bruns. 2022. .First published Sept 7, 2022. Nanoscale, advance article
JL Butterfield, GP Penoncello,KV Dikshit,CJ Bruns. .ACS Applied Nano Materials2022,In Press.
KV Dikshit,CJ Bruns. .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. .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, andDaniel 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. . InCHI 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