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, 8 Nov. 2019
  • 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, 8 Dec. 2020
  • 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, 21 Apr. 2022
  • 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, 20 Apr. 2020
  • 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, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Through research like this, the Center is realizing its ambitious mission to shed light on the chemistries of biopolymers, a foundation of all living things.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2019
  • In a second video, Aime shows the body modification specialist inserting the chip, which was encased in a biopolymer.
    Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2019
  • 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, 2 Nov. 2017
  • 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, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Because these waste converters are insects, their larvae contain the biopolymer chitin, and that could be pulled out for the $65 billion market for its uses in paper, textiles, skin products, biomedicines and even dissolving bandages.
    Steven Savage, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • 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

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