The phrase "adopt the shape" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of taking on a particular form or appearance, often in a metaphorical or artistic context.
Example: "The sculpture seemed to adopt the shape of the surrounding landscape, blending seamlessly with its environment."
Alternatives: "take on the form" or "assume the shape".
The tetragonal phase was revealed to localize at the interface and adopt the shape of prismatic isosceles triangles detected at early stages of oxidation.
In time-lapse studies we observed that the cells adhere preferentially to the gold pads and adopt the shape of the clusters.
Firstly, a highly parametrised 3-D model is reported, able to adopt the shape of a wide variety of different classes of vehicle (e.g. cars, vans, buses etc)., and its subsequent specialisation to a generic car class which accounts for commonly encountered types of car (including saloon, batchback and estate cars).
The cavity can also adopt the shape of the eutomer.
In addition, we adopt the shape features due to the meaningful connected regions extracted in our paper.
But the repair-and-enrichment approach can also adopt the shape of affirmation/correction cum direct instruction (Chin 2006).
On the other hand, it is well demonstrated that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be grown inside of these membranes adopting the shape of the pores [10 13].
The domain of Nodal expression and intercalation adopts the shape of the forming streak.
After adsorption of the proteins onto the mica support, the particles adopted the shape of a spherical cap.
In this situation, attention does not act as a spotlight, however, but, rather, adopts the shape of the relevant object (Fig. 4c).
The Au adopts the shape and size of the channels, thus scanning electron microscope (SEM) investigations on the wire morphology after PET dissolution in 9 M NaOH at room temperature yield information on the geometry of the channels investigated.
