Materials and Complexity: Emergence of structural complexity in sphere packings

T. Aste; T. Di Matteo

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Materials and Complexity: Emergence of structural complexity in sphere packings

T. Aste^*, T. Di Matteo

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	60390G
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	6039
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.637534
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	Complex Systems - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 12 Dec 2005 → 14 Dec 2005

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