Cypris

[ sip-ris ]

noun

1. an epithet of Aphrodite, meaning “Lady of Cyprus.”

Example Sentences

“They’ve made progress in a field that desperately needs innovation, and it looks like they’ve made the jump from the laboratory to the real world. That’s super impressive,” says John Warner, a distinguished research fellow at the company Zymergen and a pioneer of green chemistry, who was not involved in Cypris Materials’ work.

From Scientific American

Cypris’s copolymers do this on their own when put into a solution, with the length of the polymer chain determining the wavelength of light reflected.

From Scientific American

The new colorants come in a powdered form that Cypris Materials says can be incorporated into manufacturing processes—added to paint in an automotive spray gun, for example, or mixed into nail polish.

From Scientific American

Cypris Materials creates structure-based colorants using what are known as self-assembling block copolymers.

From Scientific American

But now chemists at a Berkeley, Calif.–based start-up called Cypris Materials say they are closing in on a way to do so.

From Scientific American