Bruix Fusté, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-02-17)
This thesis focuses on the computational study of models for platinum catalysts supported on cerium oxide (CeO2) which are of technological relevance. In these catalysts, ceria is often found acting as ...
Demiroglu, Ilker (Date of defense: 2014-02-27)
Throughout this thesis, we have studied ZnO and its properties in a bottom-up manner through a dimensionality range starting from 0D nanoparticles to 3D bulk phases. For the 0D clusters and the 2D ...