Peer-Reviewed Articles
2024
JL Butterfield, JR Quigley, CJ Bruns.* Smart Tattoos from Intradermally Implantable Photochromic Nanosensors for Personal Ultraviolet Sensing and Dosimetry. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2405831. doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202405831
J-B Kauzya, B Hayes, AC Hayes, JF Thompson, C Bellerjeau, K Evans, J Osio-Norgaard, G Gavai, K Dikshit, C Bruns, R MacCurdy, RA Street, GL Whiting.* Direct ink writing of viscous inks in variable gravity regimes using parabolic flights. Acta Astronautica 2024, 219, 569–579. doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.03.037
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.
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, 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.
A Parameswar, KV Dikshit, S Movafaghi, CJ Bruns, AP Goodwin.* Mechanochemistry Activated Covalent Conjugation Reactions in Soft Hydrogels Induced by Interfacial Failure. ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2021, 13, 1486–1492.
2020
JL Butterfield, SP Keyser, KV Dikshit, H Kwon, MI Koster, CJ Bruns.* Solar Freckles: Long-Term Photochromic Tattoos for Intradermal Ultraviolet Radiometry. ACS Nano 2020, 14, 13619–13628.
M Atreya, K Dikshit, G Marinick, J Nielson, CJ Bruns, GL Whiting.* Poly(lactic acid)-Based Ink for Biodegradable Printed Electronics With Conductivity Enhanced through Solvent Aging. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 23494–23501.
2019
CJ Bruns.* 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.
CJ Bruns,* JF Stoddart.* 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.)