Recent Advances in Thermoelectric Materials for High Efficiency Energy Conversion and Refrigeration

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910566477803321
• Autore: Mele Paolo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (100 p.)
• Soggetti: Technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; Materials science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Thermoelectricity is a well-known phenomenon that enables the conversion of heat into electric energy without moving parts. Its exploitation has been widely considered to contribute to the increasing need for energy along with the concerns about the environmental impact of traditional fossil energy sources. In the last few years, significant improvements in the performance of thermoelectric materials have been achieved through chemical doping, solid solution formation, and nanoengineering approaches. Furthermore, the feasibility of flexible, stretchable, and conformable thermoelectric harvesters has been demonstrated and has attracted the interest of an audience from many different fields. However, the path for practical applications of thermoelectrics is still a long one. This Special Issue of Materials intends to bridge the gap between materials science and applications of thermoelectric materials. Many topics are welcome: new thermoelectric compounds; the correlation between material structure and thermoelectric properties; bulk thermoelectric ceramics, oxides, and chalcogenides; bulk thermoelectric alloys and intermetallics; organic and polymeric thermoelectrics; thermoelectric thin films, multilayers, and nanocomposites; theory and modeling; thermal transport and thermal conductivity; applications and devices based on ; thermoelectric materials; standardization and metrology; and more.

Endovascular Neurosurgery Through Clinical Cases / / by Aristotelis P. Mitsos

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910300225703321
• Autore: Mitsos Aristotelis P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milano : , : Springer Milan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 88-470-5687-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 610; 616.0757; 617.05; 617.5; 617413
• Soggetti: Interventional radiology ; Neuroradiology; Minimally invasive surgery; Vascular surgery; Otolaryngologic surgery; Interventional Radiology; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Vascular Surgery; Head and Neck Surgery
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Embryology of the Central Nervous System Vascular Network -- Embryological Development of CNS – Τhe Basic Features -- Embryology of the Cranial Arterial System -- Embryology of the Cranial Venous System -- Anatomy of the Central Nervous System Vascular Network -- The Cranial Arterial System -- The Cranial Venous System -- Aneurysms of the Anterior Brain Circulation -- Sidewall Aneurysms -- Bifurcation Aneurysms -- Anterior Communicating Aneurysms Middle ; Cerebral Aneurysms -- Aneurysms of the Posterior Brain Circulation -- Sidewall Aneurysms -- Bifurcation Aneurysms -- Brain Arteriovenous Malformations -- Brain Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas -- Carotid-Cavernous Fistulas -- Intracranial Arterial Stenosis -- Spinal Vascular Malformations -- Organization Of The Neuroendovascular Services.
• Sommario/riassunto: Endovascular neurosurgery is a recently introduced but rapidly evolving medical field, which uses minimally invasive interventions to treat major life-threatening vascular lesions of the Central Nervous System. Although its history counts less than 15 years of worldwide acceptance, it has rapidly displaced the traditional open neurosurgical techniques, being nowadays the first treatment choice for brain aneurysms and vascular malformations. Thus, the experience of each neuroendovascular center and performer is invaluable, offering the base for learning and teaching the new generation of interventionalists as well as for the evolvement of the method itself. This book presents the basic principles of endovascular neurosurgery starting from clinical cases. Through this close-to-clinical-reality-process, the reader will be able to more thoroughly understand the pathophysiology of the brain and spine vascular lesions as well as the decision-making strategy, related to the indications, endovascular methods and results, finding suggestions and solutions to his/her clinical questions and problems. Besides chapters devoted to CNS vascular embryology and anatomy, clinical cases organized in groups based on the treated lesions are introduced: ruptured and unruptured cerebral aneurysms of the anterior and posterior circulation, side-wall and bifurcation aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVM), dural arteriovenous fistulae (dAVF), arterial stenosis and angioplasty as well as spinal vascular lesions. A separate chapter is devoted to the organization and necessary equipment of the angio room and the department offering neuroendovascular service. This volume will be of interest to neurosurgeons, interventional neuroradiologists, vascular surgeons, neurologists and ICU physicians as well as health care providers who are involved in the diagnosis and management of the vascular lesions of the brain and spine.