Sachs, with specific regard to the use of cardboard and duct tape and other such "low" materials, is fond of the notion that through a labor intensive studio process, he can "transform a temporary material into an heirloom product".
I.B.M., Intel and other companies are already pursuing a competing technology called phase-change memory, which uses heat to transform a glassy material from an amorphous state to a crystalline one and back.
Chanel managed to transform jersey – a material previously used for men's underwear – into clothing that came to encapsulate the Twenties' idea of modern luxury.
Rather, and in line with the parallelism attributed by Leibniz to Spinoza, as each productive process transforms a unique material (concepts in science, goods in economics, social relations in politics), each process can only be understood in terms of its unique causal structure.
The objective is to transform a general anisotropic composite material with a regular array of reinforcements and/or actuators into a simpler one that is characterized by some effective coefficients; it is implicit, of course, that the physical problem based on these homogenized coefficients should give predictions differing as little as possible from those of the original problem.
A group of researchers at the company's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., reported in the journal Science that they had pioneered a novel mechanism for transforming an insulating material into a metallic conductor by placing it in contact with a charged fluid.
This course helped transform a hitherto rather qualitative subject into a quantitative discipline, and was an important step in achieving his ambition to transform metallurgy into materials science.
Time transforms a guitar's materials.
The blades were made from a rock called silcrete that must be heated in fire to transform it into a material that can be flaked into a sharp edge.
An entire chapter devoted to chocolate describes the process of transforming an unpromising raw material of pale, fibrous, bitter beans into a crystalline matrix of tightly packed triglyceride molecules, cocoa solids and sugar that has a hard, glossy surface, snaps when broken or bitten, and turns from a solid to a liquid only when it reaches body temperature.
