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.​

 

Member of the Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials  

Publications

  • 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
  • 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/.

 

In the news

tattoo artist bang bang displays a heart-shaped tattoo that can be switched on and off with light
How this celebrity tattoo artist created a tattoo you can turn on and off at will

Oct. 3, 2022

Bang Bang—who has inked the likes of Rihanna and LeBron—teamed up with research scientists Carson Bruns and Jesse Butterfield to develop a new kind of light-sensitive ink.

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Ellen Yi-Luen Do and Carson Bruns win graduate school awards for outstanding mentorship

May 4, 2022

Praised by their graduate students for their scientific competence, work ethic, creativity and compassion, two ATLAS professors received Outstanding Faculty Mentor awards from CU Boulder’s Graduate School on May 3, an honor bestowed this year on only 18 faculty members campus-wide.

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High-tech tattoos may help prevent skin cancer

Nov. 15, 2021

Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab, and his research team are collaborating with the CU Anschutz Medical Campus to test a tattoo ink that’s completely invisible—and could lower the risk of skin cancer, much like a “permanent sunscreen."

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ATLAS research spins off to Catalyze CU

June 21, 2021

Two teams from the ATLAS Institute were selected to participate in Catalyze CU, a highly selective, summer-long startup accelerator that combines world-class mentorship, funding and dedicated co-working space.