Bruce C. Bunker

Partner Science Leader, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
Science Thrust: Soft, Biological, and Composite Nanomaterials

Phone: 505-284-6892
Fax: 505-284-7778
bcbunke@sandia.gov

P.O Box 5800, Eubank Blvd., MS 1304
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, NM 87185


 

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Education and Training

Undergraduate: Occidental College Chemistry, B.A., 1974
Graduate: University of Illinois, Champaign Inorganic Chemistry, Ph.D., 1979

Research

Bruce’s research interests involve understanding the fundamentals of solution-based assembly and interfacial interactions, particularly as applied to bio-inspired nanocomposites. Assembly strategies involve classical self-assembly, programmed assembly (using molecules with switchable interaction potentials), and active assembly (involving energy-consuming species such as motor proteins and microtubules). Applications of interest for bio-inspired assemblies include composites for the harvesting, transport, storage, and conversion of energy as well as programmable materials for sensors and environmental remediation.

Selected Publications

  • M. E. Roberts, D. R. Wheeler, B. B. McKenzie, and B. C. Bunker, “High Specific Capacitance Conducting Polymer Supercapacitor Electrodes Based on Poly(tris(thiophenylphenyl)amine,” J. Mater. Chem., in press (2009)
  • B. C. Bunker, “Reversible Switching of Interfacial Interactions,” Mat. Science & Eng. R, 62, 157 (2008)
  • E. D. Spoerke, J. K. Hendricks, G. D. Bachand, E. Bekyarova, R. C. Haddon, and B. C. Bunker, “Dynamic Biomolecular Assembly of Carbon Nanotube Interconnects,” Nature Nanotech. (submitted)
  • D. L. Huber, R. P. Manginell, M. A. Samara, B.-I. Kim, and B. C. Bunker, “Programmed Adsorption and Release of Proteins in a Microfluidic Device,” Science, 301, 352 (2003)
  • H. I. Kim, J. G. Kushmerick, J. E. Houston, and B. C. Bunker, “Viscous “Interphase” Water Adjacent to Oligo(ethylene glycol)-Terminated Monolayers,” Langmuir, 19, 9271 (2003)
  • T. A. Michalske and B. C. Bunker, “Fracturing of Glass,” Scientific American, 257, 122 (1987)

Selected User Projects

  • Designing a Microfluidic Laboratory, Yonggang Zhu, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Melbourne, Australia
  • Magnetic Directed Assembly of Nanoscale Junctions for Electonic Measurements, James Kushmerick, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
  • Assembling Carbon Nanotubes Using Molecular Motors, Robert Haddon, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA