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(Source: News at Princeton, accessed on 7 September 2009)

Princeton researchers have beaten the present world record for packing the most tetrahedra into a volume.

In the cover story of the 13 August 2009 issue of Nature, Salvatore Torquato, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, and Yang Jiao, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, report that they have bested the world record, set last year by Elizabeth Chen, a graduate student at the University of Michigan.

Finding the best way to pack the greatest quantity of a specifically shaped object into a confined space may sound simple, yet it consistently has led to deep mathematical concepts and practical applications, such as improved computer security codes.

NTU staff and students can click here to read the full text of published article in Nature.

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