Materials from mathematics

James, Richard

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Materials from mathematics
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Abstract:

I survey some examples of materials whose recent discovery was based in an essential way on mathematical ideas. The main idea concerns compatibility, the fitting together of the phases of a material. Some of the emerging materials have the ability to change heat directly into electricity without the need of a separate electrical generator.

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