Peer-Reviewed Articles
WORK AT CU BOULDER
2023
Purnendu, J Hartcher-O’Brien, V Mehta, N Colonnese, A Gupta, CJ Bruns, P Agarwal. Fingertip Wearable High Resolution Electro-Hydraulic Interface for Multi-modal Haptics. Technical Papers of the World Haptics Conference 2023. July 10–13, 2023.
SC Lamont, K Weishaar, CJ Bruns, FJ Vernerey. Micromechanics and Damage in Slide-Ring Networks. Phys. Rev. E 2023, 107, 044501.
KV Dikshit, AM Visal, F Janssen, A Larsen, CJ Bruns. Pressure-Sensitive Supramolecular Adhesives Based on Lipoic Acid and Bio-Friendly Dynamic Cyclodextrin and Polyrotaxane Cross-Linkers. ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2023, In Press.
M Atreya, S DeSousa, J-B Kauzya, E Williams, K Dikshit, A Hayes, J Nielson, A Palmgren, S Khorchidian, S Liu, A Gopalakrishanan, E Bihar, CJ Bruns, R Bardgett, JN Quinton, J Davies, JC Neff, GL Whiting. A Transient Printed Soil Decomposition Sensor based on a Biopolymer Composite Conductor. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2023, 10, 2205785
Y Sui, AN Radwan, A Gopalakrishnan, K Dikshit, CJ Bruns, CA Zorman, GL Whiting. A Reactive Inkjet Printing Process for Fabricating Biodegradable Conductive Zinc Structures. Adv. Eng. Mater. 2023, 25: 2200529.
KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns. Slide-Ring Materials Based on Self-Assembled Polyrotaxane “Molecular Necklaces”. In Supramolecular Nanotechnology. Advanced Design of Self-Assembled Functional Materials. M Conda-Sheridan, O Azzaroni (Eds.) Weinheim: Wiley-VCH GmbH, 2023. 565–594.
2022
CJ Bruns. Moving Forward in the Semantic Soup of Artificial Molecular Machine Taxonomy. Nature Nanotechnol. 2022, 17, 1231–1234.
M Atreya, S DeSousa, J-B Kauzya, E Williams, K Dikshit, A Hayes, J Nielson, A Palmgren, S Khorchidian, S Liu, A Gopalakrishanan, E Bihar, CJ Bruns, R Bardgett, JN Quinton, J Davies, JC Neff, GL Whiting. A Transient Printed Soil Decomposition Sensor based on a Biopolymer Composite Conductor. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2022, In Press.
M Atreya, G Marinick, C Baumbauer, KV Dikshit, S Liu, C Bellerjeau, J Nielson, S Khorchidian, A Palmgren, Y Sui, R Bardgett, D Baumbauer, CJ Bruns, JC Neff, AC Arias, GL Whiting. Wax Blends as Tunable Encapsulants for Soil-Degradable Electronics. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2022, 4, 4912–4920.
H Kwon, B Newell, CJ Bruns. Redox-Switchable Host-Guest Complexes of Metallocenes and [8]Cycloparaphenylene. Nanoscale 2022, 14, 14276–14285.
S Yongkun, AN Radwan, A Gopalakrishnan, K Dikshit, CJ Bruns, CA Zorman, GL Whiting. A Reactive Inkjet Printing Process for Fabricating Biodegradable Conductive Zinc Structures. Adv. Eng. Mater. 2022, In Press.
KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns. Chemorheological Monitoring of Cross-Linking in Slide-Ring Gels Derived from a-Cyclodextrin Polyrotaxanes. Front. Chem. 2022, 10:923775.
JL Butterfield, GP Penoncello, KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns. A Photochromic Intradermal Smart Tattoo Based on Diarylethene-Doped Polystyrene Nanoparticles for Personal γ-Ray Dosimetry. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2022, 5, 13840–13844.
H Kwon, CJ Bruns. All-Conjugated Cycloparaphenylene-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Host-Guest Complexes Stabilized by CH–π Interactions. Nano Research 2022, 15, 5545–5555.
2021
X Zhou, H Kwon, RR Thompson, R Herman, FR Fronczek, CJ Bruns, S Lee. Scalable Synthesis of [8]Cycloparaphenyleneacetylene via Alkyne Metathesis and Bromination/Dehydrobromination. Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 10887–10890.
Dikshit, K. V.; Bruns, C. J. Post-Synthesis Modification of Slide-Ring Gels for Thermal and Mechanical Reconfiguration. Soft Matter 2021, 17, 5248–5257.
Purnendu, S Novack, E Acome, M Alistar, C Keplinger, MD Gross, C Bruns, D Leithinger. Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators. SIGGRAPH ’21 Labs, August 09-13, 2021, Virtual, USA.
Purnendu, S Novack, E Acome, C Keplinger, M Alistar, MD Gross, C Bruns, D Leithinger. Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces, In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS ’21), June 28-July 2, 2021, Virtual Event. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages.
Purnendu, E Acome, C Keplinger, MD Gross, C Bruns, D Leithinger. Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '21 Extended Abstracts), May 8–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.
Parameswar, A.; Dikshit, K. V.; Movafaghi, S.; Bruns, C. J.; Goodwin, A. P. Mechanochemistry Activated Covalent Conjugation Reactions in Soft Hydrogels Induced by Interfacial Failure. ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2021, 13, 1486–1492.
2020
Butterfield, J. L.; Keyser, S. P.; Dikshit, K. V.; Kwon, H.; Koster, M. I.; Bruns, C. J. Solar Freckles: Long-Term Photochromic Tattoos for Intradermal Ultraviolet Radiometry. ACS Nano 2020, 14, 13619–13628.
Atreya, M.; Dikshit, K.; Marinick, G.; Nielson, J.; Bruns, C. J.; Whiting, G. L. Poly(lactic acid)-Based Ink for Biodegradable Printed Electronics With Conductivity Enhanced through Solvent Aging. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 23494–23501.
Bruns, C. J. Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats. The Conversation, 2020.
2019
Bruns, C. J. Exploring and Exploiting the Symmetry-Breaking Effect of Cyclodextrins in Mechanomolecules. Symmetry 2019, 11, 1249.
Books / Chapters
KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns*. Slide-Ring Materials Based on Self-Assembled Polyrotaxane “Molecular Necklaces”. In Supramolecular Nanotechnology. Advanced Design of Self-Assembled Functional Materials. M Conda-Sheridan, O Azzaroni (Eds.) Weinheim: Wiley-VCH GmbH, 2022. In Press.
Bruns, C. J.; Stoddart, J. F. The Nature of the Mechanical Bond: From Molecules to Machines. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. 761 pages. ISBN: 9781119044000
Other Articles
CJ Bruns, W Wang, K Hirose. Editorial: Recent Advances in Mechanically Bonded Molecules. Front. Chem. 2022, 10:1095082.
CJ Bruns. Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats. The Conversation, 2020.
Bruns, C. J. The Rise of Smart Tattoos. TEDxMileHigh Blog. 2019.
Drahl, C. A Conversation with Carson Bruns. ACS Cent. Sci. 2019, 5, 201–202. (Also appeared in Chemical and Engineering News, Volume 97, Issue 11.)