Lorente Crivillé, Adriana (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
Natural products from terrestrial plants and microorganisms have long been a traditional source of drugs. For centuries humans have been looking on their environment for medicines to treat illnesses. ...
Jimenez Villarin, Javier (Date of defense: 2017-06-08)
In the past 50 years there has been increasing interest and concern over pharmaceutical drugs and their presence in the environment, since they and/or their metabolites could induce toxicological effects ...
Calderón Díaz, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2019-10-24)
Renewable energies have a major role in today’s energy systems development, energy security and climate change fight. Thermal Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) has the potential to get up to 11.3% of ...
Farré Flaquer, Arnau (Date of defense: 2012-07-03)
After an intense development of optical tweezers as a biophysical tool during the last decades, quantitative experiments in living cells have not found in this technique its best ally, due, in part, to ...
Sancho Jodar, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
Enzyme catalysis has been scaled up for several industrial sectors during the last decades, including pharmaceutics, food and beverages. This raised the interest of other industries such as energy or ...
Gómez Núñez, Alberto (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)
Although an extensive number of investigators, during the arise of this printed materials technology, were devoted to make very interesting discoveries concerning the most used sol-gel precursor to ...
Pagès Casas, Josep M. (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
Particles dispersed in nematic liquid crystals (NLCs), also called nematic colloids, are nowadays typical experimental systems studied in the field of Soft Matter. In this scenario, the interactions and ...
Herrando Vila, Sergi (Date of defense: 2001-05-21)
The main objective of this thesis is to analyse how fire and fragmentation in Mediterranean habitats affect birds. Each chapter of this work poses questions and hypothesises about the ecological responses ...
Ayala Cabrera, Juan Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-10-02)
[eng] The environment sustainability is being threatened by the continuous release of pollutants that can negatively affect not only environmental compartments but also wildlife and human beings. Among ...
Quintanilla Casas, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2022-04-01)
Olive oil (OO) is a highly appreciated food product due to its nutritional value and organoleptic properties, marketed worldwide. In spite of being one of the most regulated food products, its high ...