Rissone, Paolo (Date of defense: 2023-04-20)
[eng] This doctoral work investigates nucleic acids' thermodynamic and kinetic properties. The main objective is the characterization of the energetics and the folding mechanisms driving the hybridization ...
Gironella Torrent, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-04-27)
In this thesis, we employ noise-correlation force spectroscopy measurements using LOT to extract valuable information about the passive and active fluctuations of DNA molecules and red blood cells. We ...
Viader Godoy, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)
In this thesis, single-molecule experiments using LOT are employed to extract accurate information about the thermodynamics and kinetics of various molecular systems, with special emphasis on the elastic ...
Rico Pastó, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-03-22)
In the present thesis, single-molecule experiments have been carried out using optical tweezers with a temperature controller. Employing equilibrium and non-equilibrium experiments, the free energy, ...