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Representatives from several countries have contacted the Local Organising Committee of ICTAM2012 (http://www.ictam2012.org/) to say that many of their colleagues had found it impossible to meet the deadline of 9 January, because it was too close to their countries’ winter holidays, and requesting an extension. The organisers therefore announce an extension until 24.00 hours (Beijing time) on Thursday 19 January, 2012, by which time all short papers must be received.

Study on the properties of inhomogeneous media plays a central role throughout the history of physics, e.g.

Possion’s theory on magnetism of composites, Faraday’s dielectric model of composites, Maxwell’s and later

Rayleigh’s work on conductivity of composites, and Einstein’s thesis on viscosity of fluid-particle media. As

a special branch of this field, percolation research on phase transition and critical phenomena was originated

with lattice percolation theories in 1950s [1]. The idealization of a lattice structure is convenient for analytical

As of 8 January 2012, the number of registered users of iMechanica exceeded 30,000 , the total number of posts is 11,690, the total number of comments is 18,000.  After five years and four months since its launch, iMechanica still keeps growing steadily.



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Individual GaN Nanowires Exhibit Strong Piezoelectricity in 3D 

PostDoc Opening in Ortiz Group at MIT: Mechanics of Structural Biological and Bioinspired Materials

(http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www)

We have a new paper published, " Stiffness and strength of suture joints in nature, " PHYSICAL REVIEW E

84, 062904 (2011) by Yaning Li, Christine Ortiz, and Mary C. Boyce.
Download the paper from here:

http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/publications.html. We welcome any comments to cortiz [at] mit.edu (cortiz[at]mit[dot]edu).