Postma, Tobias Maria (Date of defense: 2014-03-21)
Cysteine (Cys) is a unique amino acid due to its ability to form reversible covalent disulfide bonds. These bonds cause conformational constraints which make peptides or proteins more rigid and stable. ...
Pereira de Magalhaes e Couto, Miguel (Date of defense: 2014-11-10)
The main subject of this Thesis is the production of hard, wear and corrosion resistant cermets tungsten carbide and cobalt cermets (WC-Co) with different contents in cobalt matrix, onto low carbon ...
Martínez Rodríguez, María (Date of defense: 2014-07-10)
El objetivo principal de la presente tesis ha sido la preparación y caracterización de emulsiones bituminosas concentradas y altamente concentradas de betún en agua controlando el tamaño de gota. Las ...
Bolívar i Subirats, Gabino (Date of defense: 2015-11-05)
Els plastificants són additius o monòmers dels plàstics que s'empren durant la fabricació d'aquests per modificar propietats fisicoquímiques. Poden arribar al medi ambient a partir de focus industrials, ...
Lendínez Gris, Mª Carmen (Date of defense: 2015-06-08)
Las emulsiones son dispersiones de dos líquidos inmiscibles que, generalmente están estabilizadas por moléculas tensioactivas. Cuando la fracción en volumen de fase dispersa es superior o igual a 0,74 ...
Borràs Tudurí, Roser (Date of defense: 2018-07-06)
The Immune System (IS) is a complex collection of tissues, organs, cells and molecules to defense the body against threatens. IS is organized into two lines of defense: innate immunity which acts in a ...
Mendieta Martínez, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-06-06)
Proteases are involved in a high number of diseases, and thus, are relevant targets. For that reason our main goal was the discovery of protease inhibitors as therapeutic agents. We focused our study ...
Zamudio Vázquez, Rubí (Date of defense: 2014-02-14)
Triostins are members of the quinoxaline antibiotic family, together with the "prototypical bisintercalator" echinomycin. These molecules display interesting antitumour activities as they inhibit ...
Matencio Lloberas, Sonia (Date of defense: 2015-10-29)
Organic/inorganic interfaces play a key role in organic electronic devices such as organic light emitting diodes (OLED), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic solar cells (OSC). In these ...
Gil Escolano, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
Marine natural products (MNPs) are, undoubtedly, highly valuable starting points for drug-development programs. Generally, MNPs show a well-defined spatial orientation that have evolved for thousands ...