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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-28 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by ONR (N00014-14-1-0714), AFOSR (FA9550-15-1-0207), NSF (DMREF-1629026), and the MURI program (FA9550-18-0095, FA9550-16-1-0566).
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