Publications

Chemically driven multimodal locomotion of active, flexible sheets

Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E Shklyaev, and Anna C Balazs

Langmuir (2023)

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Solutal-buoyancy driven intertwining and rotation of patterned elastic sheets

Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E Shklyaev, Howard A Stone and Anna C Balazs

PNAS Nexus (2022)

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Computer modeling reveals modalities to actuate mutable, active matter

Abhrajit Laskar, Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E Shklyaev, and Anna C Balazs

Nat Commun (2022)

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Self-generated convective flows enhance the rates of chemical reactions

Raj Kumar Manna, Kayla Gentile, Oleg E Shklyaev, Ayusman Sen, and Anna C Balazs

Langmuir (2022)

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Harnessing the power of chemically active sheets in solution

Raj Kumar Manna, Abhrajit Laskar, Oleg E. Shklyaev & Anna C. Balazs

Nat. Rev. Phys. (2021)

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Colloidal assembly and separation under UV‐induced convective flows and on inclines

Joshua E Kauffman, Benjamin M Tansi, Christopher LaSalle, Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E Shklyaev, Anna C Balazs, Ayusman Sen

ChemNanoMat (2021)

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Chemical pumps and flexible sheets spontaneously form self-regulating oscillators in solution

Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E. Shklyaev, and Anna C. Balazs

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A (2021)

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Achieving independent control over surface and bulk fluid flows in microchambers

Benjamin M Tansi, Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E Shklyaev, Matthew L Peris, Anna C Balazs, Ayusman Sen

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2021)

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Chemically controlled shape-morphing of elastic sheets

Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E. Shklyaev, Howard A. Stone, and Anna C. Balazs

Materials Horizons (2020)

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Modeling the biomimetic self-organization of active objects in fluids

Abhrajit Laskar, Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E Shklyaev, Anna C Balazs

Nano Today (2019)

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Light-induced convective segregation of different sized microparticles

Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E. Shklyaev, Joshua Kauffman, Benjamin Tansi, Ayusman Sen , and Anna C. Balazs

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2019)

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Emergent topological phenomena in active polymeric fluids

Raj Kumar Manna and P. B. Sunil Kumar

Soft Matter (2018)

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Linking catalyst-coated isotropic colloids into “active” flexible chains enhances their diffusivity

Bipul Biswas, Raj Kumar Manna, Abhrajit Laskar, P. B. Sunil Kumar, Ronojoy Adhikari, and Guruswamy Kumaraswamy

ACS Nano (2017)

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Colloidal transport by active filaments

Raj Kumar Manna, P. B. Sunil Kumar , Ronojoy Adhikari

J. Chem. Phys. (2017)

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Dynamics of a polyelectrolyte in simple shear flow

Kandiledath Jayasree, Raj Kumar Manna, Debapriya Banerjee, and P. B. Sunil Kumar

J. Chem. Phys. (2013)

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Excess energy of an ultracold Fermi gas in a trapped geometry

Shyamal Biswas, Debnarayan Jana, Raj Kumar Manna

European Physical Journal (2012)

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