Igor Aronson

Co-Director of the Center for Mathematics of Living and Mimetic Matter; Huck Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Mathematics

Igor Aronson

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Most Recent Publications

Biomechanical modeling of spatiotemporal bacteria-phage competition

Andrés Valdez, Hui Sun, Howard Howie Weiss, Igor Aranson, 2025, Communications Physics

Durotaxis and extracellular matrix degradation promote the clustering of cancer cells

Mykhailo Potomkin, Oleg Kim, Yuliya Klymenko, Mark Alber, Igor S. Aranson, 2025, iScience

Vortex reversal is a precursor of confined bacterial turbulence

Daiki Nishiguchi, Sora Shiratani, Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Igor S. Aranson, 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Collective buoyancy-driven dynamics in swarming enzymatic nanomotors

Shuqin Chen, Xander Peetroons, Anna C. Bakenecker, Florencia Lezcano, Igor S. Aranson, Samuel Sánchez, 2024, Nature Communications

Bacteria Navigate Anisotropic Media using a Flagellar Tug-of-Oars

Ameya Prabhune, Andy Garcia-Cordillo, Igor Aronson, Thomas Powers, Nuris Figueroa-Morales, 2024, PRX Life on p. 9

The effect of repeat feeding on dengue virus transmission potential in Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti following extended egg quiescence

Meng-Jia Lau, Andres Valdez, Matthew J. Jones, Igor Aronson, Ary Hoffmann, Elizabeth A. McGraw, 2024, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases on p. 16

Spontaneous shock waves in pulse-stimulated flocks of Quincke rollers

Bo Zhang, Andreas Glatz, Igor S. Aranson, Alexey Snezhko, 2023, Nature Communications

Ultrasound Manipulation and Extrusion of Active Nanorods

Leonardo Dominguez Rubio, Matthew Collins, Ayusman Sen, Igor S. Aranson, 2023, Small

Viscoelasticity enhances collective motion of bacteria

Wentian Liao, Igor S. Aranson, 2023, PNAS Nexus

Programming motion of platinum microparticles: From linear to orbital

Angus Unruh, Alan Brooks, Igor Aranson, Ayusman Sen, 2023, ACS Applied Engineering Materials on p. 1126-1133

Most-Cited Papers

The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

Gerhard Gompper, Roland G. Winkler, Thomas Speck, Alexandre Solon, Cesare Nardini, Fernando Peruani, Hartmut Löwen, Ramin Golestanian, U. Benjamin Kaupp, Luis Alvarez, Thomas Ki rboe, Eric Lauga, Wilson C.K. Poon, Antonio Desimone, Santiago Muiños-Landin, Alexander Fischer, Nicola A. Söker, Frank Cichos, Raymond Kapral, Pierre Gaspard, Marisol Ripoll, Francesc Sagues, Amin Doostmohammadi, Julia M. Yeomans, Igor S. Aranson, Clemens Bechinger, Holger Stark, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Fran ois J. Nedelec, Trinish Sarkar, Thibault Aryaksama, Mathilde Lacroix, Guillaume Duclos, Victor Yashunsky, Pascal Silberzan, Marino Arroyo, Sohan Kale, 2020, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Flocking ferromagnetic colloids

Andreas Kaiser, Alexey Snezhko, Igor S. Aranson, 2017, Science advances on p. e1601469

Active turbulence in a gas of self-assembled spinners

Gašper Kokot, Shibananda Das, Roland G. Winkler, Gerhard Gompper, Igor S. Aranson, Alexey Snezhko, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 12870-12875

Collisions of deformable cells lead to collective migration

Jakob Löber, Falko Ziebert, Igor S. Aranson, 2015, Scientific Reports

Topological defects in a living nematic ensnare swimming bacteria

Mikhail M. Genkin, Andrey Sokolov, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Igor S. Aranson, 2017, Physical Review X on p. 011029

Tuning antimicrobial properties of biomimetic nanopatterned surfaces

Martyna Michalska, Francesca Gambacorta, Ralu Divan, Igor S. Aranson, Andrey Sokolov, Philippe Noirot, Philip D. Laible, 2018, Nanoscale on p. 6639-6650

Collective motion of self-propelled particles with memory

Ken H. Nagai, Yutaka Sumino, Raul Montagne, Igor S. Aranson, Hugues Chaté, 2015, Physical Review Letters on p. 168001

Engineering bacterial vortex lattice via direct laser lithography

Daiki Nishiguchi, Igor S. Aranson, Alexey Snezhko, Andrey Sokolov, 2018, Nature Communications

Computational approaches to substrate-based cell motility

Falko Ziebert, Igor S. Aranson, 2016, npj Computational Materials

Dynamic states of swimming bacteria in a nematic liquid crystal cell with homeotropic alignment

Shuang Zhou, Oleh Tovkach, Dmitry Golovaty, Andrey Sokolov, Igor S. Aranson, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, 2017, New Journal of Physics on p. 055006

News Articles Featuring Igor Aronson

Nov 22, 2024

Q&A: How does ‘collective intelligence’ emerge among tiny robots?

Researcher awarded $1.05M to study the emergence of collective intelligence among simple microrobots.

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Aug 15, 2024

Penn State awards five new seed grants to support inter-institutional research

Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program.

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Dec 07, 2023

Spinning up control: Propeller shape helps direct nanoparticles, researchers say

An international team of researchers has developed an approach to rein in the synthetic self-propelled nanoparticles

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Dec 05, 2023

Bacteria's mucus maneuvers: Study reveals how snot facilitates infection

New study shows thicker mucus supercharges bacteria’s ability to self-organize into swarms to spread infection

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Jun 15, 2023

Penn State researchers use ultrasound to control orientation of small particles

Acoustic waves may be able to control how particles sort themselves. While researchers have been able to separate particles based on their shape — for example, bacteria from other cells — for years, the ability to control their movement has remained a largely unsolved problem, until now.

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Dec 12, 2022

Model shows how intelligent-like behavior can emerge from non-living agents

From a distance, they looked like clouds of dust. Yet, the swarm of microrobots in author Michael Crichton’s bestseller “Prey” was self-organized.

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Nov 30, 2020

Biomedical engineers find active particles swim against the current

Researchers are beginning to understand the behavior of so-called “active” particles, which, if it can be controlled, has potential implications for engineered drug delivery systems and smart 3D printing, according to an interdisciplinary Penn State research team.

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Oct 30, 2019

Tiny swimming donuts deliver the goods

Bacteria and other swimming microorganisms evolved to thrive in challenging environments, and researchers struggle to mimic their unique abilities for biomedical technologies, but fabrication challenges created a manufacturing bottleneck. Microscopic, 3D-printed, tori — donuts ­­— coated with nickel and platinum may bridge the gap between biological and synthetic swimmers, according to an international team of researchers.

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