Examples of biopolymer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 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 More recently, companies like QMILK have developed biopolymer variants that are natural and use renewable resources. — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021 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 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 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 See More

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