List of Publications
Books
Bruns, C. J.; Stoddart, J. F. The Nature of the Mechanical Bond. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. 761 pp.
Book Chapters
3. 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.
2. Bruns, C. J.; Stoddart, J. F. Mechanically Interlaced and Interlocked Donor-Acceptor Foldamers. Adv. Polym. Sci. 2013, 261, 271–294.
1. Bruns, C. J.; Stoddart, J. F. The Mechanical Bond: A Work of Art. Top. Curr. Chem. 2012, 323, 19–72.
Peer-Reviewed RESEARCH ARTICLES
49. 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.
48. SC Lamont, K Weishaar, CJ Bruns, FJ Vernerey*. Micromechanics and Damage in Slide-Ring Networks. Phys. Rev. E 2023, 107, 044501.
47. 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, 15, 17256–17267.
46. 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
45. 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.
44. CJ Bruns. Moving Forward in the Semantic Soup of Artificial Molecular Machine Taxonomy. Nature Nanotechnol. 2022, 17, 1231–1234.
43. 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.
42. H Kwon, B Newell, CJ Bruns. Redox-Switchable Host-Guest Complexes of Metallocenes and [8]Cycloparaphenylene. Nanoscale 2022, 14, 14276–14285.
41. KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns. Chemorheological Monitoring of Cross-Linking in Slide-Ring Gels Derived from a-Cyclodextrin Polyrotaxanes. Front. Chem. 2022, 10:923775.
40. 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.
39. H Kwon, CJ Bruns. All-Conjugated Cycloparaphenylene-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Host-Guest Complexes Stabilized by CH–π Interactions. Nano Research 2022, 15, 5545–5555.
38. X Zhou, H Kwon, RR Thompson, R Herman, FR Fronczek, CJ Bruns, S Lee. Scalable Synthesis of [8]Cycloparaphenyleneacetylene via Alkyne Metathesis and Bromination/ Dehydro-bromination. Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 10887–10890.
37. 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.
36. 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.
35. 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.
34. Dikshit, K. V.; Bruns, C. J. Post-Synthesis Modification of Slide-Ring Gels for Thermal and Mechanical Reconfiguration. Soft Matter 2021, 17, 5248–5257.
33. 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.
32. 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 UV Radiometry. ACS Nano 2020, 14, 13619–13628.
31. 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 Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, 12, 23494–23501.
30. Bruns, C. J. Exploring and Exploiting the Symmetry-Breaking Effect of Cyclodextrins in Mechanomolecules. Symmetry 2019, 11, 1249.
29. Sluysmans, D.; Devaux, F.; Bruns, C. J.; Stoddart, J. F.; Duwez, A.-S. Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Synthetic Oligorotaxane Foldamers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2018, 115, 9362–9366
28. Sluysmans, D.; Hubert, S.; Bruns, C. J.; Zhu, Z.; Stoddart, J. F.; Duwez, A.-S. Synthetic Oligorotaxanes Exert High Forces When Folding Under Mechanical Load. Nature Nanotech. 2018, 13, 209–213
27. Loser, S.; Lou, S. J.; Savoie, B. M.; Bruns, C. J.; Timalsina, A.; Leonardi, M. J.; Harschneck, T.; Turrisi, R.; Zhou, N.; Stern, C. L.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Facchetti, A.; Chang, R. P. H.; Stupp, S. I.; Ratner, M. A.; Chen, L. X.; Marks, T. J. Systematic Evaluation of Structure-Property Relationships in Heteroacene-Diketopyrrolopyrrole Molecular Donors for Organic Solar Cells. J. Mater. Chem. A 2017, 5, 9217–9232
26. Slack, C. C.; Finbloom, J. A.; Jeong, K. Bruns, C. J.; Wemmer, D. A; Pines, A.; Francis, M. B. Rotaxane Probes for Protease Detection by 129Xe HyperCEST NMR.Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 1076–1079.
25. Bruns, C. J.; Liu, H.; Francis, M. B. Near-Quantitative Aqueous Synthesis of Rotaxanes via Bioconjugation to Oligopeptides and Proteins. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 15307–15310.
24. Finbloom, J. A.; Slack, C. C.; Bruns, C. J.; Jeong, K.; Wemmer, D. E.; Pines, A.; Francis, M. B. Rotaxane-Mediated Suppression and Actvation of Cucurbit[6]uril for Molecular Detection by 129Xe HyperCEST NMR. Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 3119–3122.
23. Aytun, T.; Santos, P. J.; Bruns, C. J.; Huang, D.; Koltonow, A. R.; Olvera de la Cruz, M.; Stupp, S. I. Self-Assembling Tripodal Small-Molecule Donors for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120, 3602–3611.
22. Hou, X.; Ke, C.; Bruns, C. J.; McGonigal, P. R.; Pettman, R. B.; Stoddart, J. F. Tunable Solid-State Fluorescent Materials for Supramolecular Encryption. Nature Commun. 2015, 6:6884.
21. Bruns, C. J.; Fujita, D.; Hoshino, M.; Sato, S.; Stoddart, J. F.; Fujita, M. Emergent Ion-Gated Binding of Cationic Host-Guest Complexes Within Cationic M12L24 Molecular Flasks. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 12027–12034.
20. Bruns, C. J.; Stoddart, J. F. Rotaxane-Based Molecular Muscles. Acc. Chem. Res. 2014, 47, 2186–2199.
19. Bruns, C. J.; Frasconi, M.; Iehl, J.; Hartlieb, K. J.; Schneebeli, S. T.; Cheng, C.; Stupp, S. I.; Stoddart, J. F. Redox Switchable Daisy Chains Driven by Radical-Radical Interactions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 4714–4723. Featured in JACS Spotlights
18. Bruns, C. J.; Li, J.; Frasconi, M.; Schneebeli, S. T.; Iehl, J.; Jacquot de Rouville, H.-P.; Stupp, S. I.; Voth, G. A.; Stoddart, J. F. An Electrochemically and Thermally Switchable Donor-Acceptor [c2]Daisy Chain Rotaxane. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 1953–1958.
17. Bruns, C. J.; Herman, D. J.; Minuzzo, J. B.; Lehrman, J. A.; Stupp, S. I. Rationalizing Molecular Design in the Electrodeposition of Anisotropic Lamellar Nanostructures. Chem. Mater. 2013, 25, 4330–4339.
16. Fahrenbach, A. C.; Bruns, C. J.; Li, H.; Trabolsi, A.; Coskun, A.; Stoddart, J. F. Ground-State Kinetics of Bistable Redox-Active Donor-Acceptor Mechanically Interlocked Molecules. Acc. Chem. Res. 2014, 47, 482–493.
15. Ruiz-Carretero, A.; Aytun, T.; Bruns, C. J.; Newcomb, C. J.; Tsai, W.-W.; Stupp, S. I. Stepwise Self-Assembly to Improve Solar Cell Morphology. J. Mat. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11674–11681.
14. Guerrero, A.; Loser, S. C.; Garcia-Belmonte, G.; Bruns, C. J.; Smith, J.; Miyauchi, H.; Stupp, S. I.; Marks, T. J.; Bisquert, J. Solution-Processed Small Molecule:Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells: Impedance Spectroscopy Deduced Bulk and Interfacial Limits to Fill-Factor. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2013, 15, 16456–16462.
13. Juriček, M.*; Barnes, J. C.*; Dale, E. J.; Liu, W.-G.; Strutt, N. L.; Bruns, C. J.; Vermeulen, N. A.; Ghooray, K.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Stern, C. L.; Botros, Y. Y.; Goddard, W. A. III; Stoddart, J. F. Ex2Box: Interdependent Modes of Binding in a Two-Nanometer-Long Synthetic Receptor. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 12736–12746.
12. Bruns, C. J.; Stoddart, J. F. Molecular Machines Muscle Up. Nature Nanotechnol. 2013, 8, 9–10.
11. Zhu, Z.; Bruns, C. J.; Li, H.; Lei, J.; Ke, C.; Liu, Z.; Shafaie, S.; Colquhoun, H. M.; Stoddart, J. F. Synthesis and Solution-State Dynamics of Donor-Acceptor Oligorotaxane Foldamers. Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 1470–1483.
10. Barnes, J. C.*; Juriček, M.*; Strutt, N. L.; Frasconi, M.; Sampath, S.; Giesener, M. A.; McGrier, P. L.; Bruns, C. J.; Stern, C. L.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Stoddart, J. F. ExBox: A Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Scavenger. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 183–192.
9. Gothard, C. M.*; Bruns, C. J.*; Gothard, N. A.; Grzybowski, B. A.; Stoddart, J. F. Modular Synthesis of Bipyridinium Oligomers and Corresponding Donor-Acceptor Oligorotaxanes with Crown Ethers. Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 5066–5069.
8. Jacquot de Rouville, H.-P.; Iehl, J.; Bruns, C. J.; McGrier, P. L.; Frasconi, M.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Stoddart, J. F. A Neutral Naphthalene Diimide [2]Rotaxane. Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 5188–5191.
7. Basuray, A. N.; Jacquot de Rouville, H.-P.; Hartlieb, K. J.; Kikuchi, T.; Strutt, N. L.; Bruns, C. J.; Ambrogio, M. W.; Avestro, A.-J.; Schneebeli, S. T.; Fahrenbach, A. C.; Stoddart, J. F. The Chameleonic Nature of Diazopyrenium Recognition Processes. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 11872–11879.
6. Fahrenbach, A. C.; Hartlieb, K. J.; Sue, C.-H.; Bruns, C. J.; Barin, G.; Basu, S.; Olson, M. A.; Botros, Y. Y.; Bagabas, A.; Khdary, N.; Stoddart, J. F. Rapid Thermally Assisted donor-acceptor catenation. Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 9141–9143.
5. Fahrenbach, A. C.; Bruns, C. J.; Cao, D.; Stoddart, J. F. Ground-State Thermodynamics of Redox-Active Donor-Acceptor Mechanically Interlocked Molecules. Acc. Chem. Res. 2012, 45, 1581–1592.
4. Loser, S.; Bruns, C. J.; Miyauchi, H.; Ponce Ortiz, R.; Facchetti, A.; Stupp, S. I.; Marks, T. J. A Naphthodithiophene-Diketopyrrolopyrrole Donor Molecule for Efficient Solution-Processed Solar Cells. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 8142–8145.
3. Bruns, C. J.; Basu, S.; Stoddart, J. F. Improved Synthesis of 1,5-Dinaphtho[38]Crown-10. Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 983–986.
2. Forgan, R. S.; Friedman, D. C.; Stern, C. L.; Bruns, C. J. Stoddart, J. F. Directed Self-Assembly of a Ring-in-Ring Complex. Chem. Commun. 2010, 5861–5863. Front Cover
1. Boonya-Udtayan, S.; Yotapan, N.; Woo, C.; Bruns, C. J.; Ruchirawat, S.; Thasana, N. Synthesis and Biological Activities of Azalamellarins. Chem. Asian J. 2010, 5, 2113–2123.
Other PUBLICATIONS
4. CJ Bruns, W Wang, K Hirose. Editorial: Recent Advances in Mechanically Bonded Molecules. Front. Chem. 2022, 10:1095082.
3. Bruns, C. J. Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats. The Conversation, 2020.
2. 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.) cenm.ag/bruns
1. Bruns, C. J. The Rise of Smart Tattoos. TEDxMileHigh Blog. 2019.