Bruns Receives $455k NSF Grant for Self-Assembling Micro-Hydrogels

The Particulate and Multiphase Processes (PMP) Program of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) has awarded $455,000 to Dr. Bruns, with partial support from the Polymers (POL) program in the Division of Materials Research. The grant will support the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab effort to encode self-assembly information into microscopic hydrogel particles using flow photolithography techniques. The three-year project may provide a foundation for the scalable self-assembly of soft micromachines.