Jesse Butterfield
- PhD Mech. Eng.'22
- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Jesse Butterfield received his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington in 2013 with a focus on nanoscience and molecular engineering. Advised by Carson Bruns, he spent two years as an engineer for Boeing Commercial Airplanes before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder to pursue his PhD.
For more information about Jesse, view his LinkedIn page. Alumni pages are not always updated after graduation.
Projects
Publications
Jesse L. Butterfield, Jennifer R. Quigley, Carson J. Bruns. 2024. "Smart Tattoos of Intradermally Implanted Photochromic Nanosensors for Personal UV Sensing and Dosimetry". In: Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 34, Issue 40. (October 2024).
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.
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.