Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Personal profile
Professor Braun received his BS degree, with distinction, from Cornell University, and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from UIUC in 1998. Following a one year post-doctoral appointment at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, he joined the faculty at UIUC in 1999 as an assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and a part-time faculty member of the Beckman Institute. He is the recipient of a Beckman Young Investigator Award (2001); 3M Nontenured Faculty Award (2001); Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS (2002), and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010). From the UIUC College of Engineering, he has received the Willett Faculty Scholar Award (2002), Xerox Award for Faculty Research (2004), and Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award (2010). He was named a University Scholar by the University of Illinois (2006).
Research Interests
energy storage; polymers; self-assembly; electronic materials; photonics
Professional Information
Our research program covers a wide range of materials science disciplines, with a general focus on the formation and study of nano and microstructures through self and directed assembly. The Braun group focuses on new functional materials for energy storage and solar energy harvesting, in particular on the synthesis of materials with carefully crafted 3D nano- and mesoscale architectures which lead to emergence of new optical, electrochemical, and thermal functionalities. The group also has considerable research interests in self-healing materials and materials for chemical sensing.
Honors & Awards
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010)
Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award, College of Engineering, UIUC (2010)
Named on List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (2009)
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, College of Engineering, UIUC (2009)
Plenary Lecturer, Composites at Lake Louise, Banff, Alberta, Canada (2009)
Accenture Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising (2007)
Accenture Multi-year Faculty Achievement Award, College of Engineering, UIUC (2007)
Office Address
Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
University of Illinois
2015 MRL
104 S Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Phone
Fingerprint
Fingerprint is based on mining the text of the expert's scholarly documents to create an index of weighted terms, which defines the key subjects of each individual researcher.
- 1 Similar Profiles
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
-
A Self-Healing System for Polydicyclopentadiene Thermosets
Lee, Y. B., Suslick, B. A., de Jong, D., Wilson, G. O., Moore, J. S., Sottos, N. R. & Braun, P. V., Mar 14 2024, In: Advanced Materials. 36, 11, 2309662.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access -
Composition-Nanoarchitecture-Performance Analysis of High Energy Density Electrodeposited Silicon for Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes
Fritz, N. J., Jeong, H., Zahiri, B., Sun, P., Singhal, G., Caple, M. A., Yang, Z., Ma, J., Choi, M., Obong, A. A., Blake, A. J., Cook, J. B., Miljkovic, N., Cahill, D. G. & Braun, P. V., Jul 22 2024, In: ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7, 14, p. 5957-5966 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Coupling of Ethylene-Oxide-Based Polymeric Network Structure and Counterion Chemistry to Ionic Conductivity and Ion Selectivity
Chen, C., Mei, B., Zhou, J., Schweizer, K. S., Evans, C. M. & Braun, P. V., Jul 23 2024, In: Macromolecules. 57, 14, p. 6779-6788 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Helical peptide structure improves conductivity and stability of solid electrolytes
Chen, Y., Xue, T., Chen, C., Jang, S., Braun, P. V., Cheng, J. & Evans, C. M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Nature Materials.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Highly Ordered Eutectic Mesostructures via Template-Directed Solidification within Thermally Engineered Templates
Kang, S. B., Huang, G., Singhal, G., Xie, D., Hsieh, D. H., Lee, Y., Kulkarni, A. A., Smith, J. W., Chen, Q., Thornton, K., Sinha, S. & Braun, P. V., Apr 11 2024, In: Advanced Materials. 36, 15, 2308720.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
-
Data for Formation and impact of nanoscopic oriented phase domains in electrochemical crystalline electrodes
Chen, W. (Creator), Zhan, X. (Creator), Yuan, R. (Creator), Pidaparthy, S. (Creator), Yong, A. X. B. (Creator), An, H. (Creator), Tang, Z. (Creator), Yin, K. (Creator), Patra, A. (Creator), Jeong, H. (Creator), Zhang, C. (Creator), Ta, K. (Creator), Riedel, Z. (Creator), Stephens, R. (Creator), Shoemaker, D. P. (Creator), Yang, H. (Creator), Gewirth, A. A. (Creator), Braun, P. V. (Creator), Ertekin, E. (Creator), Zuo, J.-M. (Creator) & Chen, Q. (Creator), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Aug 31 2022
DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-4717991_V1
Dataset
-
Data for Enabling High Precision Gradient Index Control in Subsurface Multiphoton Lithography
Littlefield, A. (Creator), Xie, D. (Creator), Richards, C. (Creator), Ocier, C. (Creator), Gao, H. (Creator), Messinger, J. (Creator), Ju, L. (Creator), Gao, J. (Creator), Edwards, L. (Creator), Braun, P. V. (Creator) & Goddard, L. L. (Creator), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Mar 27 2023
DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-3190140_V1
Dataset
Press/Media
-
Previously unseen processes reveal path to better rechargeable battery performance
Shoemaker, D. P., Yang, H., Gewirth, A. A., Braun, P. V., Ertekin, E., Zuo, J.-M. & Chen, Q.
11/9/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research