Manu Prakash
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Manu Prakash is an Indian scientist who is a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Manu was born in Meerut, India. He is best known for his contributions to the Foldscope and Paperfuge. Prakash received the MacArthur Fellowship in September 2016. He and his team are also working on a water droplet based computer in Stanford University. His work focuses on frugal innovation that makes medicine, computing and microscopy accessible to more people across the world.
Manu Prakash's Published Works
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Published Works
- Microfluidic Bubble Logic (2006) (464)
- Surface Tension Transport of Prey by Feeding Shorebirds: The Capillary Ratchet (2008) (351)
- Vapour-mediated sensing and motility in two-component droplets (2015) (285)
- Foldscope: Origami-Based Paper Microscope (2014) (284)
- The Integument of Water-walking Arthropods: Form and Function (2007) (215)
- Hand-powered ultralow-cost paper centrifuge (2017) (206)
- The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems (2018) (138)
- Synchronous universal droplet logic and control (2015) (99)
- Using mobile phones as acoustic sensors for high-throughput mosquito surveillance (2017) (78)
- Diagnosis of Schistosoma haematobium infection with a mobile phone-mounted Foldscope and a reversed-lens CellScope in Ghana. (2015) (76)
- The multiscale physics of cilia and flagella (2020) (74)
- Water-walking devices (2007) (74)
- Vortex arrays and ciliary tangles underlie the feeding–swimming trade-off in starfish larvae (2016) (70)
- Ultrafast epithelial contractions provide insights into contraction speed limits and tissue integrity (2018) (66)
- Mapping Load-Bearing in the Mammalian Spindle Reveals Local Kinetochore Fiber Anchorage that Provides Mechanical Isolation and Redundancy (2017) (49)
- Interfacial propulsion by directional adhesion (2010) (45)
- Collective intercellular communication through ultra-fast hydrodynamic trigger waves (2018) (45)
- Emergent mechanics of biological structures (2014) (42)
- Multi-scale spatial heterogeneity enhances particle clearance in airway ciliary arrays (2019) (42)
- Flowtrace: simple visualization of coherent structures in biological fluid flows (2016) (34)
- On a tweezer for droplets. (2010) (29)
- Motility-induced fracture reveals a ductile-to-brittle crossover in a simple animal’s epithelia (2021) (28)
- Surface tension dominates insect flight on fluid interfaces (2014) (28)
- Modified full-face snorkel masks as reusable personal protective equipment for hospital personnel (2020) (24)
- Octopi: Open configurable high-throughput imaging platform for infectious disease diagnosis in the field (2019) (22)
- Scale-free vertical tracking microscopy (2020) (20)
- BiteOscope, an open platform to study mosquito biting behavior (2020) (16)
- Punch Card Programmable Microfluidics (2012) (15)
- Coupled Active Systems Encode an Emergent Hunting Behavior in the Unicellular Predator Lacrymaria olor (2019) (15)
- Handyfuge-LAMP: low-cost and electricity-free centrifugation forisothermal SARS-CoV-2 detection in saliva. (2020) (15)
- Schistosoma mansoni cercariae swim efficiently by exploiting an elastohydrodynamic coupling (2016) (13)
- Synchronous magnetic control of water droplets in bulk ferrofluid. (2017) (12)
- Two-component marangoni-contracted droplets: friction and shape. (2017) (12)
- Squid: Simplifying Quantitative Imaging Platform Development and Deployment (2020) (12)
- Applying heat and humidity using stove boiled water for decontamination of N95 respirators in low resource settings (2020) (10)
- PlanktonScope: Affordable modular imaging platform for citizen oceanography (2020) (10)
- Scale-free Vertical Tracking Microscopy: Towards Bridging Scales in Biological Oceanography (2019) (8)
- Excitable mechanics embodied in a walking cilium (2021) (8)
- Motility induced fracture reveals a ductile to brittle crossover in the epithelial tissues of a simple animal (2019) (8)
- Paperfuge: An ultra-low cost, hand-powered centrifuge inspired by the mechanics of a whirligig toy (2016) (7)
- Utah-Stanford Ventilator (Vent4US): Developing a rapidlyscalable ventilator for COVID-19 patients with ARDS (2020) (7)
- Mapping load-bearing in the mammalian spindle reveals local kinetochore-fiber anchorage that provides mechanical isolation and redundancy (2017) (7)
- Dancing droplets: Autonomous surface tension-driven droplet motion (2014) (7)
- FRICTIONAL PERFORMANCE OF DIMPLED TEXTURED SURFACES ON A FRICTIONAL PAIR: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY (2018) (7)
- multiSero: open multiplex-ELISA platform for analyzing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection (2021) (7)
- The Taste of Blood in Mosquitoes (2020) (6)
- Grinding Process on AlSic composite material and Optimization of surface roughness by ANFIS (2011) (6)
- Ultra-fast cellular contractions in the epithelium of T. adhaerens and the “active cohesion” hypothesis (2018) (6)
- Mobile defects born from an energy cascade shape the locomotive behavior of a headless animal (2021) (6)
- Plankton Planet: ‘seatizen’ oceanography to assess open ocean life at the planetary scale (2020) (6)
- Engineering reconfigurable flow patterns via surface-driven light-controlled active matter (2020) (5)
- Project 1000 x 1000: Centrifugal melt spinning for distributed manufacturing of N95 filtering facepiece respirators (2020) (5)
- A microfluidic platform for highly parallel bite by bite profiling of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission (2021) (5)
- Dynamic vortex arrays created by starfish larvae (2017) (4)
- The hungry fly: Hydrodynamics of feeding in the common house fly (2010) (4)
- Reply to 'Boundary effects on currents around ciliated larvae' (2017) (4)
- Using Mobile Phones as Acoustic Sensors for the Surveillance of Spatio-temporal Mosquito Ecology (2017) (4)
- BiteOscope: an open platform to study mosquito blood-feeding behavior (2020) (4)
- Epithelial Tissues as Active Solids: From Nonlinear Contraction Pulses to Rupture Resistance (2020) (4)
- Paperfuge: An ultralow-cost, hand-powered paper-centrifuge inspired by the mechanics of a whirligig toy (2017) (3)
- A Swimming Rheometer: Self-propulsion of a freely-suspended swimmer enabled by viscoelastic normal stresses (2021) (3)
- Rapid behavioral transitions produce chaotic mixing by a planktonic microswimmer. (2018) (3)
- Droplet tilings for rapid exploration of spatially constrained many-body systems (2021) (3)
- Wetting: Bumps lead the way. (2016) (3)
- Microfluidic bubble logic and applications (2007) (3)
- A freely suspended robotic swimmer propelled by viscoelastic normal stresses (2022) (3)
- Modeling epithelial tissues as active-elastic sheets reproduce contraction pulses and predict rip resistance (2021) (2)
- Coupled active systems encode emergent behavioral dynamics of the unicellular predator Lacrymaria olor (2018) (2)
- Ultra Fast Contractions and Emergent Dynamics in a Living Active Solid - The Epithelium of the Primitive Animal Trichoplax adhaerens (2018) (2)
- PlanktoScope: Affordable Modular Quantitative Imaging Platform for Citizen Oceanography (2022) (2)
- Methylene Blue staining (2016) (2)
- Plankton Planet: A frugal, cooperative measure of aquatic life at the planetary scale (2022) (2)
- The dynamics of multi-cellular coordination in a living fossil (2018) (2)
- Ciliary flocking and emergent instabilities enable collective agility in a non-neuromuscular animal (2021) (2)
- Frugal science: A physicist view on tackling global health and education challenges (2018) (2)
- Heat-based Decontamination of N95 Masks Using a Commercial Laundry Dryer (2020) (2)
- Thermotaxis in an apolar, non-neuronal animal (2022) (1)
- Vectorchip: Microfluidic platform for highly parallel bite by bite profiling of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission (2020) (1)
- Low cost centrifugal melt spinning for distributed manufacturing of non-woven media (2022) (1)
- Propulsion by directional adhesion (2008) (1)
- Basin-Scale Underway Quantitative Survey of Surface Microplankton Using Affordable Collection and Imaging Tools Deployed From Tara (2022) (1)
- Two-component self-contracted droplets: long-range attraction and confinement effects (2017) (1)
- Physical Determinants of Bipolar Mitotic Spindle Assembly and Stability in Fission Yeast (2017) (1)
- The deadly swimming of Cercariae: an unusual Stokesian swimmer (2014) (1)
- Emergent Programmable Behavior and Chaos in Dynamically Driven Active Filaments (2022) (1)
- Generation of droplet arrays with rational number spacing patterns driven by a periodic energy landscape. (2017) (1)
- Every Child in the World Should Carry a Microscope in Their Pocket (2018) (1)
- Entangled architecture of rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) and vacuoles enables topological damping in cytoplasm of an ultra-fast giant cell (2021) (1)
- Advances in Colloid and Interface Science (2010) (0)
- MultiSero: An Open-Source Multiplex-ELISA Platform for Measuring Antibody Responses to Infection (2023) (0)
- OmiCrisp: A CRISPR SARS-CoV-2 test with Omicron detection (2023) (0)
- AnmO2l: An open-source pulse-dose oxygen conserving device for the COVID-19 crisis (2021) (0)
- MultiSero: portable plate reader with on-board analysis for serosurveillance of Dengue infections with multiplex serology (2022) (0)
- Effect of age on wingbeat frequency of Aedes aegypti and potential application for age estimation of mosquitoes. (2023) (0)
- Tissue fracture and healing dynamics govern extreme plastic shape changes in the Trichoplax adhaerens , a simple, early divergent animal (2019) (0)
- The (Anti) Gravity Machine: Behavioral Imaging at Sub-cellular Resolution of Marine Plankton Undergoing Vertical-Migration (2018) (0)
- Tissue fracture dynamics govern extreme plastic shape changes in a simple, early divergent animal (2018) (0)
- Communicating Science Via the Art of Sketching (2015) (0)
- Probing the Mechanical Coupling of the Cell Membrane to the Nucleus with Vertical Nanopillar Arrays (2013) (0)
- Energetics of the Microsporidian Polar Tube Invasion Machinery (2023) (0)
- Low-dimensional behavior and chaotic mixing by swimming starfish larvae (2018) (0)
- Magnetophoretic control of water droplets in bulk ferrofluid (2015) (0)
- Unidirectional superhydrophobic surfaces (2007) (0)
- Power Limits of Repeatable Movement in Small, Fast Organisms: Guiding Principles for Engineering Design (2018) (0)
- A simple discrete-time model for describing droplet generation in a periodic energy landscape (2017) (0)
- Local Epithelial Fracture and Healing Mechanics Dictate Morphogenesis and Asexual Reproduction in Trichoplax adhaerens (2018) (0)
- Rheosensing by impulsive cells at intermediate Reynolds numbers (2017) (0)
- Ultra-Fast Contractions and Emergent Dynamics in a Living Active Matter - the Epithelium of the Primitive Animal Trichoplax adherence (2018) (0)
- Modelling Self-structuring Processes in Morphogenesis : Lessons from Programmed Cell Death (2002) (0)
- Active Sinking Particles: Sessile Suspension Feeders significantly alter the Flow and Transport to Sinking Aggregates (2021) (0)
- Whistling Bubbles: All-fluidic linear frequency sweep generators (2009) (0)
- My friend Lucas and Foldscope (2016) (0)
- Magnetophoretic synchronous control of water droplets in bulk ferrofluid (2017) (0)
- An investigation of Dirofilaria immitis infection and its effects on mosquito wingbeat frequencies. (2020) (0)
- Projection Microscopy for Medical Diagnostics (2015) (0)
- Author ' s personal copy On a tweezer for droplets (2010) (0)
- Computational Cell Biology (2009) (0)
- Aperture-Embedded Polymer Microlenses for Ultra-Low-Cost (2013) (0)
- Video: Spin of a giant multinucleated multiflagellate zoospore (2014) (0)
- A Spinning Puzzle of the Release of a Giant Multinucleate Multiflagellate Zoospore (2014) (0)
- Synchronous Droplet Microfluidics: One "Clock" to rule them all (2013) (0)
- Where ants come from (2017) (0)
- Author response: BiteOscope, an open platform to study mosquito biting behavior (2020) (0)
- Use Foldscope in "Camera lucida" configuration - draw what you see (2016) (0)
- Video: Eat, Prey, Swim: Dynamic vortex arrays created by starfish larvae (2016) (0)
- Video: Mechanics of Active Foam: Local Energy Injection in an Addressable 2D Foam (2018) (0)
- Micro-mechanical logic for field produceable gate arrays (2005) (0)
- Percolation theory of intercellular communication through hydrodynamic trigger waves (2019) (0)
- Active sinking particles: Sessile filter-feeders can fundamentally alter the fate of sinking aggregates. (2020) (0)
- Dancing droplets: Chemical space, substrates, and control (2015) (0)
- Investigation of the swimming mechanics of \textit{Schistosoma cercariae} and its role in disease transmission (2015) (0)
- Active Foam: Connecting Structure, Dynamics and Control (2019) (0)
- Vapor mediated droplet interactions - self-sensing droplet machines (Part 1) (2014) (0)
- Vapour-mediated sensing and active motion in two-component droplets (2016) (0)
- Synchronous droplets as a test bed for pulsatory active fluids (2014) (0)
- A topologically complex cytoplasm enables inflation-based escape from a gravity trap (2022) (0)
- Mosquitoes meet microfluidics: High-throughput microfluidic tools for insect-parasite ecology in field conditions (2013) (0)
- Flying in Two Dimensions (2011) (0)
- Vapor mediated droplet interactions - models and mechanisms (Part 2) (2014) (0)
- Local Load-Bearing by Kinetochore-Fibers in the Mammalian Spindle Provides Mechanical Isolation and Redundancy (2017) (0)
- Insect flight on fluid interfaces: a chaotic interfacial oscillator (2013) (0)
- Foldscope on the breakfast table - Dracula orchid (2017) (0)
- The do-it-yourself centrifuge (2017) (0)
- Schistosoma mansoni cercariae exploit an elastohydrodynamic coupling to swim efficiently (2016) (0)
- Modeling epithelial tissues as active-elastic sheets reproduce contraction pulses and predict rip resistance (2021) (0)
- How cells jump: Ultrafast motions in the single-celled micro-organism Halteria grandinella (2017) (0)
- Collective hydrodynamic communication through ultra-fast contractions (2017) (0)
- Dancing droplets: Contact angle, drag, and confinement (2015) (0)
- Tissue Fracture Dynamics governs Mechanics of Morphogenesis in a Simple, Early Divergent Metazoan (2018) (0)
- Video: Self-propulsion of a Freely-Suspended, Rotationally-Symmetric Swimmer Enabled by Viscoelastic Normal Stresses (2021) (0)
- Bubbles of Metamorphosis (2011) (0)
- The multiscale physics of cilia and flagella (2020) (0)
- Directed percolation theory and experiments of ultra-fast hydrodynamic quorum sensing (2018) (0)
- Collective intercellular communication through ultra-fast hydrodynamic trigger waves (2019) (0)
- Gradient sensing on a lattice: frustrated droplets and ways to drive them (2019) (0)
- The unique low-Reynolds-number spinning hydrodynamics of release of a giant multinucleate multiflagellate zoospore (2014) (0)
- Driving Frustrated Lattices of Active Droplets (2019) (0)
- Self-learning mechanical circuits (2023) (0)
- Capillary ratchet: Hydrodynamics of capillary feeding in shorebirds (2008) (0)
- Inkwell: Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Open Electricity-Free 3D Printed Device for Automated Thin Smearing of Whole Blood (2023) (0)
- Video: Collective hydrodynamic communication through ultra-fast cellular contractions (2018) (0)
- Projection Microscopy for Frugal Science and Diagnostics (2014) (0)
- Towards hearing mosquito-borne diseases (2020) (0)
- Dancing Droplets (2013) (0)
- Lattices by design: exploring long-ranged interactions with gradient sensing droplets (2020) (0)
- Two-dimensional Insect Flight on an Air-Water Interface is a Chaotic Oscillator (2014) (0)
- Video: The deadly swimming of Cercariae: An unusual microscopic swimmer (2014) (0)
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