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Professor Franck Vernerey and ATLAS Assistant Professor Carson Bruns received $477,000 from the National Science Foundation to begin research on a new kind of biocompatible actuator that contracts and relaxes in only one dimension, like muscles.

ATLAS Assistant Professor Carson Bruns discusses how nanotechnology can give tattoos biomedical applications. He discusses recently-published research on tattoos that alert an individual when their skin needs protection by employing ink that is only visible when exposed to UV light.

Carson Bruns , assistant professor of mechanical engineering with the ATLAS Institute, speaks at the Colorado Tattoo Convention & Expo , Sept. 27-29 at the National Western Complex in Denver. His talk will address the future of tattoos, a subject he also covered in a TedXMileHigh talk last November.

Carson Bruns , assistant professor, discusses careers in STEAM at the Belmar Teen Science Café at the Belmar Library in Denver on Sept. 25. Bruns will discuss the potential of technologically enhanced tattoos and allow some hands-on experience with tattoo-ink at the café, which offers Jeffco-area teens opportunities to meet...

Assistant Professor Carson Bruns presents at the "me Convention," in Frankfurt, Germany, Sept. 11–13. A collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and South by Southwest, the event describes itself as, "a ‘future lab’ for exploring major issues and promising ideas for society, business, science and our planet."

Carson Bruns speaks at Children’s Hospital Colorado during a biomedical summit for Boettcher Foundation college scholarship recipients and foundation investigators that runs Sept. 11–13.

"A creator of color-changing tattoo inks and shape-shifting molecular machines, chemist/artist Carson Bruns uses nanoscience to invent new materials and technologies."

Tattooing is an ancient practice and the technology used today is fundamentally the same as it was thousands of years ago. In this jaw-dropping TEDx talk, Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of the Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials at the ATLAS Institute, demonstrates futuristic tattoos that are both beautiful and...

Carson Bruns hopes smart tattoos will help people stay healthy and more informed about their bodies, while also giving them new ways to express themselves creatively.

Carson Bruns discusses health and expressive potential for tattoo inks that change color in response to different stimuli.