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The power of Imperfections : a key to technology, love, life and survival
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- Creator
- Peter Townsend
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 380 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780192857477, 0192857479
- OCLC
- on1285708769
- 1 Before we begin -- 2 The case for technological imperfections -- 3 Cookery and technological spices -- 4 A short log of technology from wood -- 5 Reader beware -- 6 Key features of chemistry and solids -- 7 Examples of new glass technologies -- 8 Optical fibre communication -- 9 Beauty from imperfections -- 10 Valuable imperfections in crystal lattices -- 11 Impurities and the growth of semiconductors -- 12 Small anomalies and long-range consequences -- 13 Photonics in the twenty-first century -- 14 Chemistry and catalysis -- 15 Imperfections in music -- 16 Evolution achieved through imperfections -- 17 Hints for a successful scientific career -- 18 Science in the realm of opinion -- 19 Improving our future lives -- 20 The greatest challenges that we face