How to Use biomaterial in a Sentence

biomaterial

noun

• Then, Page and his team will try to get those cells to form around a scaffolding of tiny threads, made of biomaterial.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2009
• The PhonoGraft, made of a synthetic biomaterial able to conduct sound like the eardrum, also acts as a medium for the patient’s own eardrum tissue to grow over and repair itself.
  — Kevin Lin, STAT, 18 July 2021
• The recall also may come as a shock to patients and physicians who assume biomaterial has been thoroughly vetted.
  — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 11 Aug. 2023
• Vitamin A offers a line of swimsuits made with a biomaterial derived from castor beans.
  — Olivia O'Bryon, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• Their study, published this month by the journal Biomaterials, offers a new way to grow a vascular system, which has been a roadblock for tissue engineering.
  — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2017
• While researchers are still wrestling with this challenge, recent studies have shown that a silk-like biomaterial could be electrospun to construct scaffolds in human bodies.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• Bioprinting is the use of 3D printing techniques to fabricate tissues out of biomaterials.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• As a biomaterial in the polymer industry: Polyethylene is commonly used in plastic bags, films, and some types of plastic bottles.
  — Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2016
• One of the most important aspects about this new development is that the chitosan will help make devices self-powered, and Wu hopes that this development can pave a path for more use of natural biomaterials in science.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2020
• The company has partnered with New York’s Ecovative Design, a biomaterials company, to bring the textile to market.
  — Sophia Markoulakis, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
• Biodiversity banking, or biobanking, refers to the process of preserving living cells, tissue, eggs or sperm, seeds and other biomaterials.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
• These biomaterials can take different forms – films, gels, sponges – depending on what properties are desired in the resulting tissue.
  — Natalie R. Rubio, The Conversation, 5 July 2019
• Later, the researchers printed in situ living biomaterials on a glass surface inside an artificial colon.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Vietnamese designer Uyen Tran has developed a flexible biomaterial called Tômtex, a leather alternative made from coffee grounds mixed with a biopolymer called chitin that is extracted from seafood shells.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• The study, recently published in the journal Biomaterials, offers an innovative way to solve a common problem in tissue engineering by looking toward the plant world.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Mar. 2017
• Feinberg added that once this technology is tested in vivo, or in the body, there might be some regulatory hurdles with the biomaterials being used and how it could be regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
  — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023
• Business leaders and researchers say rules that are too expansive could weigh on industries that depend on freely trading components or knowledge around the world, like developers of driverless cars or biomaterials.
  — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• This year, the Biden administration called on the federal government to assess the potential for biomaterials, including for plastics, fuels and medicines.
  — Dieter Holger, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
• An exhibit of sustainable biomaterials at the Fabrica (X) store.
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
• Many conventional menstrual products have traditionally been made of hydrogels made from toxic petrochemicals, so there has been a push to make them out of biomaterials.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2023
• And injecting the animals with the smart insulin didn’t result in a significant immune response, which can be a common pitfall when introducing biomaterials to animals or humans.
  — Ivan Paul, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
• And now, the Spanish biomaterials producer has taken home an award validating the research and refinement of its bacterial cellulose.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• Beyond the popularity of the beverage, kombucha cultures hold promise as a useful biomaterial.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
• Made from organic cotton and Tencel™ Lyocell, a biomaterial derived from Eucalyptus, these jeans are sustainably made with minimal water usage and a small carbon footprint.
  — Olivia O'Bryon, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
• Material scientists have amped up their efforts in response, developing next-gen biomaterials with new zeal and knowledge, plus more novel textile-to-textile recycling methods.
  — Lauren Parker, Sourcing Journal, 9 July 2024
• Renewable biomaterials such as cellulose, silk, chitin, squid ring teeth and alginate offer low-carbon footprint alternatives to plastic.
  — Melik Demirel, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Cole herself, despite being a leading practitioner of bioluminescent art, does not always use overt biomaterial in art.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Coffee grounds were boiled in concentrated hydrochloric acid, then tested as a potential biomaterial for the pharmaceutical, food, and polymer industries.
  — Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2016
• The company, which specializes in products used for dispensing adhesives, coatings, sealants, biomaterials and other materials, gives grants through its foundation.
  — Laura Groch, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• The course will explore the properties and uses of materials including metals, ceramics, polymers, composites and biomaterials.
  — The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024