ABSTRACT
Our unquenchable curiosity about our environs and ourselves is at the root of all the scientific endeavors. We marvel at the way the wings of the butterfly are colored, at the fine smell of a jasmine flower, at the gigantic colossus of the Sal tree trunks, and the list goes on endless. All of this myriad variety, we call nature, and in fact our own body is an eternal source of wonder and joy, involving intricate mechanisms (transformations) at the atomic, molecular, supramolecular, and the gross levels. Our journey begins, when we try to understand and imitate this infinite variety. How does all this happen? What are its components? Why is it happening only this way and not by any other way? These are some of the queries, that drive us to explore, analyze, understand, and know.
