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
  • The injections in question were biopolymers, a type of liquid silicone gel.
    — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 5 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 19 Sep. 2024
  • In vitro binding of heavy metals by an edible biopolymer poly(γ-glutamic acid).
    — Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 9 July 2024
  • Instead, the material is made of recycled rubber, vegetable proteins and biopolymers.
    — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • Such particles have a reputation for being very sticky, and in this case are made of chitosan, which is a biodegradable biopolymer derived from seafood-industry shellfish waste.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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, 28 June 2021
  • 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, 28 June 2021
  • In the lab, ionic liquid was applied to the cellulose fibers, causing the biopolymer to swell, and the individual polymer chains to start separating.
    — Iddo Genuth, IEEE Spectrum, 22 May 2015
  • The dose-on-demand technology eschews heat and aerosols, and instead uses the biopolymers that mimic a natural phenomenon — how a breeze can spread a scent of blooming flowers.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Modern industrial biotechnology faces the challenge of understanding how molecules and biopolymers are synthesized and assembled on a large scale.
    — Melik Demirel, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • 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, 29 June 2010
  • 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, 20 July 2022
  • For a long time, scientists have been speculating about making biopolymers that would mirror compounds in nature but in the opposite orientation – namely, compounds made of D proteins and L sugars.
    — Kate Adamala, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Unless these issues can be resolved, optimizing yield rates or reducing expenses associated with biomanufacturing processes for producing biopolymers will not be easy.
    — Melik Demirel, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023

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