"retain functionality" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It is used to describe an action, such as keeping a system or object working properly. For example, "We had to upgrade the software to retain functionality in our system."
The film with the lowest degree of cross-linking has a wetting angle of 11°, affirming its high hydrophilicity and iCVD's ability to retain functionality.
However, little attention has been directed at developing neurotransmitter analogs that might retain functionality when tethered to a surface that could be interfaced with post-synaptic receptor proteins.
Degradable polyolefins are designed to retain functionality as a commodity plastic for the required service life but degrade to non-toxic end products in a disposal environment.
"The structure of the robot has been simplified as much as possible to maintain low complexity, but retain functionality that is required when playing soccer," say Ficht and co.
Some items retain functionality with missing buttons and lost pieces, whereas many others wind up in landfills -- or, in a feat of wonderful irony, recycled and shipped back to China to be turned into more short-term consumer goods.
According to the model of birth-and-death evolution, some of the duplicated genes may diverge, but retain functionality, while other copies may become pseudogenes [27].
For example, in a study of epistatic interactions in A. thaliana, [ 33] discovered a recent asymmetric gene duplication for which the target retained functionality in one strain while the source was the functional copy in another strain.
Moreover, the adsorbent was retaining functionality in spite of several cycles during sorption elution regeneration operations.
A portion of the engineered cells persisted as memory T cells, retaining functionality and suggesting that the cells possessed long-term activity against cancer cells.
Thus one might reject temporal parts while retaining Functionality.
The transcriptional effect of NPHGF on procollagen was measured in vitro to assess whether released growth factor retained functionality.
