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    Design and Engineering of Advanced Cathode Hosts for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries 

    Zhang, Chaoqi (Date of defense: 2022-07-04)

    Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) are regarded as the most promising candidate to replace Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in next-generation energy storage systems. Compared with LIBs, LSBs are characterized by a sixfold higher ...

    Development & Implementation of an Electron Diffraction Approach for Crystal Structure Analysis 

    Plana Ruiz, Sergi (Date of defense: 2021-01-27)

    The application of electron diffraction to crystallographically characterize all kinds of materials has experienced new developments that have attracted some attention in recent years. A large number of structural analyses ...

    Development and optimization of inkjet printing based technologies for hybrid printed circuit boards 

    Arrese Carrasquer, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-07-23)

    The main goal of this doctoral thesis is the development and optimization of inkjet- based technologies for hybrid electronic circuits manufacturing, as well contribute on the development of the incoming low cost electronics. ...

    Development of a compact NDIR spectometer based on MOEMS components for fruit ripening monitoring 

    Fonollosa Magrinyà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-07-20)

    [spa] Actualmente el control de la concentración de etileno en las cámaras de almacenamiento de fruta proporciona información de gran interés sobre su estado. Por un lado, la fruta produce pequeñas concentraciones de etileno ...

    Development of a Nano-Illumination Microscope 

    Franch Masdeu, Nil (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)

    This doctoral thesis proposes and explores a new approach to lensless microscopy, focusing on making high resolution imaging ubiquitous and low cost. A short introduction to microscopy frames the state of current techniques: ...

    Development of novel EELS methods to unveil nanoparticle properties 

    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 nanoparticle systems ...

    Diseño de arquitecturas de aprendizaje profundo para la determinación de cubiertas sobre el territorio y el estudio de series temporales 

    García Rodríguez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-07-04)

    [spa] Las cubiertas del suelo son el resultado de factores naturales, socioeconómicos y de su utilización por parte de las personas en el tiempo y en el espacio. La información sobre las dinámicas del territorio es esencial ...

    Electrochemical Plug-and-Power e-readers for Point-of-Care Applications 

    Montes Cebrián, Yaiza (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)

    Point-of-Care diagnostic tests enable monitor health conditions and obtain fast results close to the patient, reducing medical costs, and allowing the control of infectious outbreaks. The interest in developing Point-of-Care ...

    Electrohydrodynamic jet printing: stability and reproducibility 

    Ramón Ferrer, Alberto (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)

    [eng] Additive manufacturing, also referred as 3D printing, is a layer-by-layer technique that allows producing three-dimensional objects directly from a digital model. It has enabled the fabrication of innovative products ...

    Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Solutions for Nanoscale Materials Science Problems 

    Estradé Albiol, Sònia (Date of defense: 2009-02-21)

    In the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), an incident electron suffers both elastic and inelastic scattering by the solid state thin sample that is being characterised. In the event of inelastic scattering, the incident ...

    Energy Harvesting Solutions for Self-Powered Devices: From Structural Health Monitoring to Biomedical Applications 

    Álvarez-Carulla, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)

    The thesis reflects the research carried out on the development of truly self-powered devices. The development of devices for the scopes of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Point-of-Care devices (PoC) is shown. New ...

    Estudio de desechos industriales usados como materiales de almacenamiento de energía termoquímica 

    Mamani Challapa, Verónica Lisbeth (Date of defense: 2019-07-05)

    Los sistemas de almacenamiento de energía termoquímica presentan la ventaja de usar materiales que almacenan una alta densidad energética por un tiempo ilimitado, características importantes para ser aprovechadas para ...

    Estudio eléctrico y topográfico de apéndices bacterianos en la nanoescala 

    Lozano Caballero, Helena (Date of defense: 2020-10-13)

    Recently the property of some bacteria to exchange electrons with non-soluble electron acceptors, such as minerals, has been discovered. In addition, some of these bacteria can use electrodes as the final electron acceptor. ...

    Evolución de las propiedades de tuberías de PP-R en servicio 

    Ferrer, Josep Mª (Date of defense: 2023-09-06)

    [spa] Esta tesis está enfocada en la búsqueda de hitos y nuevos conceptos que permitan la mejora de un producto que actualmente está dominando el mercado en su nicho de negocio español: las tuberías de PP-RCT. La empresa ...

    Fire Detectors Based on Chemical Sensor Arrays and Machine Learning Algorithms: Calibration and Test 

    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 the intoxication of ...

    Food waste and waste activated sludge conversion into volatile fatty acids to produce bioplastics 

    Vidal Antich, Carme (Date of defense: 2022-06-14)

    Rapid population growth is leading to many environmental problems, among which a large waste generation should be highlighted. More than 40% of these wastes correspond to organic wastes that are mainly treated by composting, ...

    Forefront cold spray additive manufacturing development by leveraging new spraying strategies 

    Vaz, Rodolpho Fernando (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)

    [eng] Additive manufacturing (AM) is a process of creating a physical object by adding material layer by layer rather than removing material through machining. It is also known as 3D printing, as it typically involves using ...

    Full-3D Printed Electronics Fabrication of Radiofrequency Circuits and Passive Components 

    Salas Barenys, Arnau (Date of defense: 2021-12-15)

    This doctoral thesis raises the idea that 3D printing can change the paradigm of radio- frequency electronics, which has been traditionally developed mainly conceiving planar topologies. A review on additive manufacturing ...

    Functional design of nanocomposites and their applications in energy conversion and storage 

    Du, Ruifeng (Date of defense: 2022-06-30)

    [eng] This thesis focuses on the functional design and preparation of different kind of nanocomposites and their applications in energy conversion and storage technologies, particular in OER, HER, H2O2ER and LSBs. For the ...

    Gas sensors based on carbon nanofibers: a low power consumption approach 

    Monereo Cuscó, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-10-20)

    Gas sensors can be found in many activities ranging from environment protection, risk prevention, agriculture and even in food, chemical, and petrochemical industries. There exist different technologies for gas sensors ...