The phrase "a kind of surface" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type or category of surface in various contexts, such as art, science, or everyday objects.
Example: "The artist used a kind of surface that allowed the paint to blend seamlessly, creating a unique texture."
Alternatives: "a type of surface" or "a sort of surface".
KH550 is a kind of surface modification agent which creates more active group on surface of glass.
A kind of surface design called natural splines over refined grid points is given in this paper.
KH550 is a kind of surface modification agent, which creates more active groups on the surface of glasses.
If you could get something (an electron) through the force-field that gave it a kind of surface, then you could clearly see that there was something inside.
Extracting peat requires a kind of surface mining — laying back the top layer of a drained wetland and digging out the peat.
Though "South Beach" isn't camp — it lurks in the wings thereof, its bejeweled turban only slightly askew — it revels in a kind of surface detail that might easily be mistaken for it.
Its main product is the Spiderpodium, an ingenious device designed to grip and hold a smartphone or tablet to any kind of surface.
The rocky surface has been replaced with Field Turf, a kind of artificial surface, lights have been installed and the seating areas have been renovated...
In addition, we observe special marks—a kind of periodic surface undulation that exclusively arise on the rapid fracture surfaces, and we suggest that they are front wave traces resulting from an intrinsic local velocity fluctuation.
The butterfly wing is a kind of typical surface that performs excellent properties of superhydrophobicity especially for the front side of the wings.
_ I've always admired writers like Joyce Cary, who could master both tonalities; and, even more, writers like Svevo, who could submerge the comic impulse into a kind of squeamish surface with unreliable assistance to the reader.
