'material nature' is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to the physical features of something, or the tangible aspects of something. For example, "The material nature of this sculpture is striking - it feels cold to the touch."
"We're really interested in the material nature of the world around us – in what the natural building blocks are of the visible physical world, and how we create an understanding of them," says Ruth Jarman, one half of British artist duo Semiconductor.
For the formal nature is of greater importance than the material nature.
There is only the balanced rhythm of sentience and emotion, upholding itself amid the changes of material nature.
The firm would not comment, but a spokesman said that it always scrutinizes "good will of a material nature" in audits.
The above analysis demonstrated the functional groups, material nature, thermal stability, surface structure, porosity, elemental percentages, ion transportation etc.
As public companies come to understand the material nature of cyber threats, public disclosures should begin to shed more light on how they are addressing the risk.
He too was born with the proverbial "golden spoon in his mouth" and has never known want it means to need anything of a material nature.
This book is a wonderful weave of social and technical analysis of the history of cryptography, unified by a passion for exploring the material nature of computers.
The second course is that of the filmmaker who, recognizing the inherently material nature of the medium, renounces its over-abundance to pursue an aesthetic of scarcity, sparseness, abnegation.
Although all human traits ultimately are based in a material nature (e.g., memorizing a poem involves changing molecular configurations at synapses, where neurons interact), the term biological determinism has come to imply a rigid causation largely unaffected by environmental factors.
To do this, experimental and theoretical studies, using different types of liners (material nature, hole diameter, tube length, cavity thickness) are described in this paper.
