The phrase "a kind of material" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type or category of material in various contexts, such as science, art, or manufacturing.
Example: "The artist prefers to work with a kind of material that allows for greater flexibility in her sculptures."
Alternatives: "a type of material" or "a sort of material".
Diebenkorn wasn't Chardin but he could give ordinary things a kind of material solidity and presence.
FGM is a kind of material whose composition gradually varies in space.
Artists turn whatever intangibles they use — including empty space, language or human interaction — into a kind of material.
Spiderwebs, furry with dust, covered the high, rusting cistern, and hung like a kind of material on the small window at the top.
All waters come together, as all life does: "Individual elements are lost to view, only to reappear again and again in different incarnations in a kind of material immortality.
Jeff Brown, a spokesman for Electronic Arts, which publishes The Sims Online, noted that the goal of the Sims is to acquire a kind of material and spiritual wealth by "being social and developing as part of a community".
As a kind of materials applied in road base course, porous concrete is required to have satisfactory strength, permeability, dynamic stability, scouring resistance and volume stability.
In respect of new type semiconductor devices, "large energy gap" semiconductor materials (such as silicon carbide (SiC), etc) are a kind of materials with the best development prospect in the future.
Komanduri et al. [12] analyzed the impact of anisotropy in single-crystal aluminum, which is a kind of plastic material, on material removal and subsurface deformation mechanisms.
Thermal adaptation composite material is a kind of composite material with required thermal conductivity or coefficient of thermal expansion through the selection and design of its components.
