"contact with materials" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to any physical interaction between a person, object, or other entity and a material. For example, "He was wearing protective gloves to prevent skin contact with materials in the lab."
From our point of view, interference effects appear considerably weaker if the film is in contact with materials having refractive index higher than that of air.
But the high-profile mission by the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA) was not permitted to assess the health of Iraqis said to have become ill after contact with materials looted from the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center.
When it makes contact with materials and chemicals inside buildings and homes, it creates other chemicals, many of which are toxins like formaldehyde and irritants that can affect the respiratory system.
We speculate that these food items might have been kept warm and stored in a setting and/or in contact with materials that contained DEHP and transferred it to the food.
Ubiquitous human exposure to very low BPA doses occurs primarily through consumption of food that comes in contact with materials containing BPA, such as polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins (manufactured from BPA) used in plastic bottles, and food/beverage container coatings (EFSA 2006).
The disease is spread through direct contact with respiratory secretions, saliva, or through contact with materials that may absorb fluids (bedding, clothing, towels, etc).
Any attempt at literary naturalism in 2003 will bring the author into direct contact with material that 20 years ago would have been barely publishable as science fiction.
But then there's a part of me that's just deeply stupid, so that if I come in contact with material that excites some invisible part of me, I know I'll jump on board.
The paper gives an overview of different methods to describe weakly ionized plasmas and their spatial structure caused by contact with material walls.
During the measurement, the SThM probe is repeatedly brought into and out of contact with material surface and the thermal properties of the probed materials can be determined by measuring the comparison of the heat flow from the SThM probe before and after the contact.
It is obvious that a securities lawyer or corporate lawyer might come into contact with material, non-public information.
