'alien material' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use the phrase when you are referring to material or objects that originate from a foreign place or culture. For example, "The museum was filled with artifacts from around the world, including some alien material from far away planets."
Where can this new and alien material be stored within the old framework, where there was never any category for it?
But when the master's brother visits from England, Wash meets a white man who seems created from some wholly alien material.
The alien student and the alien material are so accidentally, and must fall within our human capacity for creating as well as conserving familiarity.
Dendritic cells normally latch on to bacteria and viruses before migrating to the lymph nodes, where they present the alien material to the immune system's "killer" T-cells that seek and destroy such invaders.
En masse, concrete can be a peculiarly alien material in Britain where the light is delicate and pale; the material's plain, even surface disposes of the posssibility of conveying a scale that can be measured in human terms.
He was also among the first medical scientists to recognize the importance of giving patients drugs to suppress their immune systems, avoiding a life-threatening complication in which the transplanted marrow attacks a patient's own tissues as alien material.
Giovannoni opposed the introduction of alien materials and forms into historic settings, but also discouraged literal replication of historic features.
An energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) device, which the SEM was equipped with, was used to identify the alloy compositions and alien materials found on the needle surfaces.
Further, in order to check the firmness of the lumps or other alien materials attached to the needle surfaces, several other randomly selected needles from each brand were cleaned in an ultrasonic washing machine for 1 min.
It reportedly wipes down its spacecraft when they return in case they are carrying traces of alien genetic material.
We strongly propose that in conjunction with stronger customs policies implemented by governments, businesses should tighten policies against unintentionally transporting alien biological material.
