MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS, A METHOD TO INVESTIGATE THE MORPHOLOGY OF MATERIALS

Using the multifractal formalism, we discuss the results obtained to characterize the morphology of polymer alloys and granular discontinuous metallic thin films. In the first case we have found a correlation between the multifractality and the mechanical properties of the alloys. In the second case, we have found that it is possible to measure the differences between the morphology of thin films induced by a growth process on a substrate and that of percolation clusters of the classical theory of percolation.