Karan completed his undergraduate education in polymer engineering in 2014 at the University of Pune, India. He served in different roles in academia and industry, before joining the Materials Science and Engineering program at CU Boulder in 2018. Currently he is developing applications for polyrotaxanes and its derivatives.
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Publications
Karan Dikshit and Carson J. Bruns. 2023. "Slide‐Ring Materials Based on Self‐assembled Polyrotaxane “Molecular Necklaces”". In: Supramolecular Nanotechnology: Advanced Design of Self‐Assembled Functional Materials 2. (April 21, 2023)
Karan Vivek Dikshit, Aseem Milind Visal, Femke Janssen, Alexander Larsen, and Carson J. Bruns. 2023. "Pressure-Sensitive Supramolecular Adhesives Based on Lipoic Acid and Biofriendly Dynamic Cyclodextrin and Polyrotaxane Cross-Linkers". In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, no. 13.
Madhur Atreya, Stacie Desousa, John-Baptist Kauzya, Evan Williams, Austin Hayes, Karan Dikshit, Jenna Nielson, Abigail Palmgren, Sara Khorchidian, Shangshi Liu, Anupam Gopalakrishnan, Eloise Bihar, Carson J. Bruns, Richard Bardgett, John N. Quinton, Jessica Davies, Jason C. Neff, Gregory L. Whiting. 2022. "A Transient Printed Soil Decomposition Sensor Based on a Biopolymer Composite Conductor." In: Advanced Science 10, no. 5. (December 11, 2022)
Madhur Atreya, John-Baptist Kauzya, Stacie DeSousa, Evan Williams, Austin Hayes, Karan Dikshit, Jenna Nielson, Abigail Palmgren, Sara Khorchidian, Shangshi Liu, Anupama Gopalakrishnan, Eloise Bihar, Carson Bruns, Richard Bardgett, John Quinton, Jessica Davies, Jason Neff, and Gregory Whiting. 2022. “Novel Printed Soil Decomposition Sensors Based on Biodegradation.” No. EGU23-8573. In: Copernicus Meetings. (December 11, 2022)
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, In Press. doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c01554
KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns. Chemorheological Monitoring of Cross-Linking in Slide-Ring Gels Derived from a-Cyclodextrin Polyrotaxanes. Front. Chem. 2022, doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2022.92377
KV Dikshit, CJ Bruns. Post-Synthesis Modification of Slide-Ring Gels for Thermal and Mechanical Reconfiguration. Soft Matter 2021, 17, 5248–5257. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SM02260H.
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. (December 28, 2020).
Butterfield JL, Keyser SP, Dikshit KV, Kwon H, Koster MI, Bruns CJ. 2020. Solar Freckles: Long-Term Photochromic Tattoos for Intradermal Ultraviolet Radiometry. ACS Nano. 2020 Oct 27;14(10):13619-13628. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05723. Epub 2020 Sep 22. PMID: 32961057.
M Atreya, K Dikshit, G Marinick, J Nielson, C Bruns, GL Whiting. Poly(lactic acid)-Based Ink for Biodegradable Printed Electronics With Conductivity Enhanced Through Solvent Aging. ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2020, 12, 23494–23501. (April 24, 2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c05196.