Advertisement
Advertisement
UL
Underwriters' Laboratories (used especially on labels for electrical appliances approved by this nonprofit safety-testing organization).
Example Sentences
Meraj Ul Zahra, two, and Abdul Momin Alfaateh, three, died after they were found injured and unresponsive at a home on Corporation Street at about 07:30 BST on Sunday.
"If we're able to give him a face and a jaw which he can use then it won't be completely normal, but hopefully he'll be able to feed himself and speak, and his facial expressions will be better," says lead surgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani, a professor of Paediatric Neurosurgery at Great Ormond Street.
The research team from the Actuate Lab in the Department of Chemical Sciences and Bernal Institute at UL, have previously utilised predictive computer models that allow them to identify how much electricity a biological material will generate when you squeeze it -- making this material suitable to power sensors in consumer electronics and medical devices.
Discussing the significance of the development, lead author of the paper and PhD student at UL Krishna Hari explained: "The versatile moulding technique that we have developed is a low-cost, low-temperature growth method that opens the path to phase in biomolecular piezoelectrics as high-performance, eco-friendly alternatives to currently used ceramics."
If successful, the research undertaken by the team at UL also has the potential to remove environmentally damaging materials such as lead from consumer electronics.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse