3. Electromagnetism of granular nanocomposites

Nanophasic materials and nanocomposites have attracted increased interest since researchers demonstrated that many of the unusual mechanical, optical, electrical, and magnetic properties of these finely divided media depend on the interfacial characteristics of their constituents due to the high fraction of material localized in the vicinity of the interfaces. The description of nanomaterials with high interface density is currently being integrated into the physics of finely divided dense media. In general, the design and optimization of modern materials that can be structured at the mesostructure scale increasingly depend on our ability to understand and comprehend phenomena from the macroscopic to the molecular scale. The development of models describing structure-property relationships, for example to understand the mechanisms of mesostructure formation (a few tens to hundreds of nanometers),...