International Innovation gets professor's take on fractal materials

9/5/2013

"Fractals can be found just about everywhere: coastlines, porous media, cracks, clouds, mountains, lightning bolts, brains, and snowflakes, to name a few," said Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski in his interview with International Innovation. "Among the many biological systems that have fractal structures, the human brain is just one example."

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"Fractals can be found just about everywhere: coastlines, porous media, cracks, clouds, mountains, lightning bolts, brains, and snowflakes, to name a few," said Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski in his interview with International Innovation. "Among the many biological systems that have fractal structures, the human brain is just one example."

This interview, titled "Interpreting patterns in materials," appears in the September 2013 edition of International Innovation and is followed by Ostoja-Starzewski’s article "The inner workings of fractal materials." These can be read in their entirety at the International Innovation website.
 


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This story was published September 5, 2013.