Recent Progress in Glass-Based Materials for Biomedical Applications

2. Dextran-based materials for biomedical applications

Dextran is a bacterial polysaccharide consisting essentially of -1,6 linked glucopyranoside residues with a small percentage of -1,3 linked residues. In the first part of the chapter we discuss methodologies to chemically modify dextran. Taking into account our previous work, we focus our attention in the oxidation of dextran and in the transesterification of dextran by enzymatic means. We disc...

Materials for Biomedical Applications

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Recent Progress on PEDOT-Based Thermoelectric Materials

The thermoelectric properties of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)-based materials have attracted attention recently because of their remarkable electrical conductivity, power factor, and figure of merit. In this review, we summarize recent efforts toward improving the thermoelectric properties of PEDOT-based materials. We also discuss thermoelectric measurement techniques and several un...

Machine Learning in Materials Science: Recent Progress and Emerging Applications

Recent progress in thermoelectric materials

Direct conversion of heat into electricity through advanced thermoelectric (TE) materials has been one of the most attractive solutions to the severe environmental and energy issues facing humanity. In recent years, great progress has been made in improving their dimensionless figure of merit (ZT), which determines the conversion efficiency of TE devices. ZT is related to three “interlocked” fa...