Puñet Ortiz, Xavier (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)
Intelligent scaffolds are designed to trigger the healing regeneration process through the controlled released or disposition of bioactive signals. The fabrication of intelligent scaffolds needs the ...
Roitero, Erica (Date of defense: 2018-02-22)
Tetragonal polycrystalline zirconia stabilized with 3% mol of yttria (3Y-TZP) is a popular bioceramic, increasingly used for dental applications thanks to its good mechanical properties, biocompatibility ...
Bin Raja-Nazri, Raja Nazrul Hakim (Date of defense: 2018-06-01)
PLA nanocomposites sheets that is rnodified with multi-functional epoxide reactive agent (Joncryi4300F, BASF, Germany) were manufacturad using reactive extrusion in a pilot plant. A commercial grade of ...
Gedler Chacón, Gabriel Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-07-12)
The goal of this research was to determine the relations between processing, structure and properties of polycarbonate-graphene nanoplatelets (PC-GnP) foams. Using two different foaming processes (in ...
Turón Viñas, Miquel (Date of defense: 2018-01-11)
Tetragonal polycrystalline zirconia, commonly stabilised with 3 mol% yttria (3Y-TZP), became one of the most interesting ceramics for biomedical applications due to its biocompatibility and high mechanical ...
Pavón Palacio, Juan José (Date of defense: 2006-11-08)
La aleación Ti6Al4V es el biomaterial más utilizado para el reemplazo de tejidos duros, debido a su alta biocompatibilidad y a sus propiedades mecánicas. Sin embargo, al ser bioinerte no se une directamente ...
León Albiter, Noel (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
Polymers have a wide range of applications. Their ability to be shaped into multiple forms makes it possible to obtain polymer films, which are highly used in industries such as food and pharmaceuticals. ...
Castellanos Arboleda, Maria Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-05-05)
Cobalt-chromium (CoCr) alloys are widely used as biomaterials for coronary stents due to their excellent mechanical properties, biocompatibility and corrosion resistance. However, these materials are ...
Fraioli, Roberta (Date of defense: 2016-11-14)
Despite being biocompatible and with adequate mechanical properties for application as a bone replacement material, titanium lacks osteoinductive capacity, i.e. it supports new bone growth on its surface ...
Chen, Yu-Hsiang (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)
Hard coating 's thermal stability is essential due to the high temperature environment of high-speed cutting applications, while the induced phase and microstructure evolution affects the mechanical ...