"preferential alignment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in a sentence to describe when a person or group favours or is biased towards another person or group, for example: "The government has come under fire for its preferential alignment with certain corporate interests."
The GIWAXS shows no preferential alignment of any of the atomic planes.
Schlemm's canal endothelial cells showed a statistically significant preferential alignment, consistent with a shear-mediated effect.
After shape memory actuation, cells remained attached and viable but lost preferential alignment.
The preferential alignment of the nanotubes also caused anisotropic electrical conductivity.
Furthermore, the preferential alignment was greatest on the reactant side of the mean flame brush.
More importantly, we identified the preferential alignment of osteoblasts in the direction of the microcracks on HA.
The slow process of creep inside the earth creates a differential stress environment (Hanks and Raleigh, 1980; McGarr, 1980) in the crust, which is responsible for the preferential alignments in the Earth, ranging from mineral orientations, grains, or microcracks to sedimentary folds or regional fractures.
A preferential constrained alignment algorithm calculates the proper compensation, or fixture offset, for any type of geometry to eliminate any possible shortage of material if possible, or orient the unavoidable area of missing material for appropriate rework.
An in vivo implantation experiment showed that this groove was effective in inducing the new bone with preferential Col/BAp alignment along the groove depth direction which corresponded to the direction of maximum principal stress inside the groove.
Such P-wave anisotropy in clay rich rocks, such as shale, has also been attributed to preferential clay alignment in the direction of bedding (Johnston and Christensen 1995).
To determine the preferential azimuthal alignment of the crystallites with respect to the substrate, we have performed pole figure investigations.
