Sentence examples for inorganic from inspiring English sources

The project was to find bacteriophages (a type of virus that infects bacteria, not people) that could be genetically engineered to bind to inorganic materials that they would not normally have an affinity for in particular, semiconductors.

Despite exhaustive analysis, whatever drove an accomplished young man to deny his very mother remains opaque.This inorganic quality extends to Coleman's purportedly steamy affair with Faunia Farley, a hard-luck, illiterate cleaning woman half his age.

That is, they incorporate crystals of insoluble inorganic salts, most often calcium carbonate or calcium phosphate, in a matrix of protein.

There are other benefits of scaling down the amount of costly inorganic semiconductive material is reduced.

Relishing the flavour Picking winners Instant messaging joins the firm Solar cells go organic ReprintsInstead of going wholly organic, another team at the University of California at Berkeley has recently created solar cells made of inorganic nanorods, seven nanometres (billionths of a metre) in diameter and 60 nanometres long, embedded in a film of polymers.

He agrees that inorganic tubes have interesting structural characteristics, but argues that carbon nanotubes look as though they will be great at many applications.

These are connected by an inorganic sulphur-based electrolyte, a combination, the firm claims, that is particularly propitious because cycling between charged and discharged states produces only a 1°C change in the battery's temperature.

The idea is to try to combine the flexibility of plastics with the proven efficiencies of inorganic semiconductors.Because the rods are so tiny (ie, 10,000 times thinner than hair), they take advantage of phenomena that work at the quantum level where the absorption of certain colours of light increases by a factor of two.

They suggested that hydrocarbons, the principal molecular constituents of oil, are generated deep within the earth from inorganic materials.

It really would be a surprise if organic semiconductors were to behave in exactly the same way as inorganic ones.The harshest examiner, however, is not a scientist's peers, but reality itself.

They matched theory exactly, which is unlikely both because experiments and theory are rarely in perfect agreement particularly with preliminary work and because the theories were developed for inorganic semiconductors such as silicon.