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Our bones: strength, flexibility and…fractals!

Each of us has a skeleton – that is ordinary. However, the bone of which a skeleton is made is anything but ordinary. From an engineering perspective bone provides an incredibly versatile support structure that performs remarkably well in a circus contortionist, a sumo wrestler,... click to read more

Roland Kröger | Professor at Department of Physics, University of York, York, UK

Natalie Reznikov | Research Fellow at Imperial College, London, UK

Bone

microstructure

electron tomography

fractals

Reading time 4.5 min

published on Nov 16, 2018

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