Materials and complexity: emergence of structural complexity in sphere packings

T. Aste; T. Di Matteo

doi:10.1117/12.637534

13 January 2006 Materials and complexity: emergence of structural complexity in sphere packings

T. Aste, T. Di Matteo

Proceedings Volume 6039, Complex Systems; 60390G (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.637534
Event: Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology, 2005, Brisbane, Australia

Abstract

The contemporary science of materials and condensed-matter physics is changing in response to a new awareness of the relevance of concepts associated with complexity. Scientists who design and study new materials are confronted by an ever-increasing degree of complexity, both in the materials themselves and in their synthesis. Typically, modern advanced materials are partially non-crystalline, often multicomponent, and form out of equilibrium. Further, they have functional and structural properties that are active over several length-scales. This emerging structural and functional complexity is intrinsic and necessary to many aspects of modern materials; features common also to several other complex systems. In this paper we briefly review the emerging structural complexity in a special model system: sphere packings.

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T. Aste and T. Di Matteo "Materials and complexity: emergence of structural complexity in sphere packings", Proc. SPIE 6039, Complex Systems, 60390G (13 January 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.637534

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