How to Use biopolymer in a Sentence

biopolymer

noun
  • Later this month, the platform will start to rotate while the arm pumps out a gooey concoction of basalt and biopolymers.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 2019-11-08
  • It will be made from a biopolymer basalt composite that's made from recyclable corn and sugar cane waste, according to Curbed.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 2019-09-04
  • Yet a new computational model that describes how early biopolymers could have grown long enough to fold into useful shapes may change that.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2017-11-02
  • The duo took cues from mother of pearl – found in crack-resistant oyster shells – which is made up of hexagonal tablets of aragonite joined by a biopolymer.
    — New Atlas, 2024-09-19
  • With warm water, naturally-occurring fats, and time, the structure of the biopolymer can be rearranged to grow to the shape of a model.
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 2020-12-08
  • The company said it’s the first to sell these kinds of chips to willing customers, unleashing its biopolymer technology about the size of a small safety pin on the world last year.
    — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 2022-04-21
  • In a second video, Aime shows the body modification specialist inserting the chip, which was encased in a biopolymer.
    — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 2019-08-13
  • Dansby had the chip encased in a biopolymer, a natural material that can safely remain under her skin like the silicon that is used for breast implants.
    — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 2019-08-27
  • Why the global market for biopolymers is set to grow by 17 percent over the next five years, according to a report by the nova-Institute.
    — Lauren Parker, Sourcing Journal, 2024-07-09
  • Perhaps some critter in the ocean's food chain could be altered to excrete an organic biopolymer like lignin that's hard to metabolize, which would settle to the seafloor and sequester carbon.
    — David Fork, IEEE Spectrum, 2021-06-28
  • Chitosan, a biopolymer (like a protein, cellulose, or DNA), can be extracted from the shells of crustaceans such as shrimp, lobsters, and crabs.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 2020-04-20
  • Case Western University chemist Christoph Weder has developed a biopolymer that, like the sea cucumber's skin, can change from stiff to supple in an instant.
    — Discover Magazine, 2010-06-29
  • Kim and his team created the tags by processing fluorescent silk cocoons from specialized silkworms to create a biopolymer, which can be formed into different patterns to encode information.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2022-07-20

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