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Welcome to the home page of the Paul Braun Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our group members perform research in the fields of materials chemistry, polymers, biomaterials, organic and inorganic self-assembly, electronic materials and photonics.

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Autonomous Materials Systems

University of Illinois

Recent Publications

Braun in the News

S. Cataldo, J. Zhao, F. Neubrech, B. Frank, C. Zhang, P.V. Braun and H. Giessen: Hole-Mask Colloidal Nanolithography for Large-Area Low-Cost Metamaterials and Antenna-Enhanced SEIRA Substrates, ACS Nano (2012).

Al Bids to Vie With Li in Battery Wars

News-Gazette Article

Podcast with Materials Today - click to listen!

WGN TV News Report

Paul Braun is interviewed by the BBC - click to listen!

Paul Braun is interviewed by German Radio

WCIA Channel 3 News Report

 

E.C. Nelson, N. Dias, K. Bassett, S. Dunham, V.
Verma, M. Miyake, P. Wiltzius, J. Rogers, J. Coleman, X. Li and P.V. Braun: Epitaxial growth of three-
dimensionally architectured optoelectronic devices
,
Nature Materials
(2011).


UI Press Release: Batteries charge very quickly and retain
capacity, thanks to new structure

Photo Credit: L. Brian Stauffer

H. Zhang, X. Yu and P.V. Braun: Three-dimensional
bicontinuous ultrafast-charge and -discharge bulk
battery electrodes,
Nature Nanotechnology (2011).

The research on Mechanochemically Active Polymers
(Mechanophores) by Nancy Sottos, Paul Braun, Jeff
Moore and Scott White was featured in the Popular
Science list of
"10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2011"



Prof. Paul Braun • Phone: +1.217.244.7293 • Fax: +1.217.333.2736 • Email: pbraun@illinois.edu
Department of Materials Science and Engineering • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign