From Nature India
doi:10.1038/nindia.2009.316; Published online 27 October 2009
Interview

Move aside plastics

K. Anantha Padmanabhan, Mercator Professor of DFG (German Research Foundation) at the Institute of Materials Physics, University of Muenster, Germany and a former director of IIT Kanpur speaks to Mohit Kumar Jolly on 'superplastics', science education and doing science in India.



K. Anantha PadmanabhanQ: How do you rate the growth of R & D sector in India?

A: The growth of R&… Continue

One of the endearing and enduring features of the structure of matter is sinilarity at different length scales, most powerfully articulated by Cyril Stanley Smith in terms of Hierarchy of Structures. While we had exmples of atoms and even polymeric chains forming quasicrystals, the recent report of nanocrystals self assembling as quasicrystals is fascinating and indicates that patterns of organization are indifferent to the identity of organizing entities.

Nature 461, 964-967 (15 October 2009)… Continue

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Abstracts are invited for papers to be submitted to the Journal of ASTM International (JAI). JAI is an online, peer-reviewed journal for the international scientific and engineering community. You may access information about JAI at www.astm.org/JAI.

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It is well known that FCC and HCP packings of identical spheres are the densest possible sphere packings with packing fraction (the ratio volume occupied by the spheres to volume of the unit cell) slightly more than 0.74. But mathematicians weren’t sure of this fact for four hundred years-from 1611, when Kepler stated it as a conjecture, to 2005, when Hales finally proved it.

But what about dense packings of… Continue