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Materials inspired by mathematics

Motoko Kotani1, Susumu Ikeda2

  • 1WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Mathematical Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
|November 24, 2016
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Keywords:
400 Modeling/Simulations402 Multi-scale modeling404 Materials informatics/genomics60 New topics/OthersMultiscale hierarchical materialscarbon networksdata-driven materials designdisordered systemsnon equilibrium materialstopological data analysis

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