Romero Güiza, Maycoll Stiven (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
Anaerobic digestion is a worldwide technology to treat organic waste streams, primarily due to its capacity to produce methane as renewable energy. However, there is an increasing interest on nutrient ...
Navarro Argemí, Eloy (Date of defense: 2018-10-25)
The goal of this thesis is studying hydrodynamic effects on active colloidal suspensions. Hydrodynamic interaction is propagated through the fluid in which the colloids displace due to the flow they ...
Pravos Fernández, David (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
This thesis describes some results in AdS/CFT duality for quantum field theories in 2+1 and 1+1 dimensions. In first place, a one-parameter family of supergravity solutions is described, obtained as ...
Lecina Casas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
Biomolecular simulations have been widely used in the study of protein-ligand interactions; comprehending the mechanisms involved in the prediction of binding affinities would have a significant ...
Hernández Martínez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)
This thesis is devoted to the development of new annealing strategies via Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) for Earth-abundant Cu2ZnSn(Sx,Se1-x) (CZTSSe) kesterite solar cells, which show a clear consensus ...
Leal Martín, Antonio Jesús (Date of defense: 2016-07-05)
Helium is the second lightest element and the second most abundant element in the universe. It is named for the Greek god of the sun, Helios, and it was first discovered by French astronomer Jules Janssen ...
Marin Benito, Carla (Date of defense: 2018-04-04)
The main goal of this thesis is to test the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics through the experimental analysis of rare processes, those that are suppressed in the SM. In particular, radiative b ...
Torruella Besa, Pau (Date of defense: 2019-04-26)
[eng] The aim of this thesis has been two-fold. First, to develop new processing and analysis tools and strategies for extracting information from EELS data, and second, to apply the methods to different ...
Martin Bandera, Francisco (Date of defense: 2018-07-16)
El campo que estudia las propiedades y comportamiento de las proteínas así como las interacciones entre ellas es tan complejo que a día de hoy resulta complicada su caracterización en detalle, sea ...
Ripoll Roca, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-07-02)
Atmospheric aerosols have played a key role in the development of the Earth’s atmosphere. Without atmospheric particles rainfall would be nonexistent and the climate would be very different. However, ...