Sopeña i Martínez, Pol (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Printed electronics appeared in the 1980s as a cost-effective alternative to silicon-based electronics. Employing the techniques from the graphics industry, such as rotogravure or screen printing, it ...
Han, Tingting (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
With the burning of large amounts of traditional fossil fuels, global environmental pollution is getting worse and worse, and energy crisis is becoming more serious for meeting human’s ...
Solorzano Soria, Ana Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-05)
In some types of fire, namely, smoldering fires or involving polymers without flame, gases and volatiles appear before smoke is released. Most of the fatalities registered for fires, are caused due to ...
Vila Giraut, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-12-10)
Conventional in vitro cell culture models do not possess the complexity that the native tissues offer. Because of this, the functional properties of the tissues are not properly mimicked, which causes ...
Zuo, Yong (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)
Storing the fluctuating renewable energy into synthetic fuels or in batteries is meaningful due to the emerging energy crisis. In this thesis, four nanostructured catalysts based on two kinds of metal ...
Mestre Castillo, Rafael (Date of defense: 2020-11-26)
Hybrid bio-robotics is a discipline that aims at integrating biological entities with synthetic materials to incorporate features from biological systems that have been optimized through millions of ...
Yue, Zhang (Date of defense: 2020-09-18)
Clinical treatments based on electrical stimulation of excitable cells have been efficacious for a variety of diseases. However, these devices are often limited by their bulkiness, need for wiring ...
Yu, Xiaoting (Date of defense: 2020-06-30)
This thesis focuses on the synthesis of different types of NCs, their application to energy conversion and storage technologies, particularly LIBs, KIBs and DEFCs, and their structural transformation ...