Pantoja Suárez, Luis Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-09-20)
The ability of humans to study, manipulate and understand matter at the nanoscale has enabled us to develop materials that can combine physical, chemical, optical, magnetic and mechanical properties ...
Aprile, Francesco (Date of defense: 2013-09-27)
The sequence of chapters can be divided into three blocks. - The first block contains the introductory chapters. In chapter 1 we illustrate the problem of the high-Tc superconductors making a parallelism ...
Almar Liante, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-07-30)
Nanomaterials have received increasing attention during the last decades in the solid state field since they play a major role as catalyst and catalyst supports for many applications including fuel cells ...
Páez Avilés, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-02-20)
Transferring nanotechnology into marketable products and services is still considered a major challenge. In Europe, this issue has been identified as a weakness, not only for nanotechnology, but also ...
Biagi, Maria Chiara (Date of defense: 2016-12-20)
The microwaves electromagnetic properties, i.e. the complex permittivity, of single cells determine how this radiation is transmitted, reflected or absorbed by biological tissues. This information is ...
Barreiros dos Santos, Marília (Date of defense: 2014-09-23)
This thesis aims the development of a multi-electrode platform with applications on different biosensing fields: (i) detection of pathogenic bacteria E.coli O157:H7 and (ii) detection of the mycotoxin ...
Gonzalez Claramonte, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-12-09)
Force plays an essential role in all fields of biology. Measurement of these forces with high precision provides information about the structure, dynamics, intra and intermolecular interactions, and the ...
Xie, Haibing (Date of defense: 2016-11-21)
Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) kesterite semiconductors have been proposed as a potential medium to long term replacement of Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 (CIGS) chalcopyrites for sustainable cost-efficient thin film ...
Picatoste Olloqui, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-12-22)
LHCb is one of the four large experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) based at CERN. The LHCb experiment is taking data at its nominal design luminosity. However, in order to distinguish among ...
Rigat Brugarolas, Luis Guillermo (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
El progreso en el área de la microfluídica y en las metodologías de cultivo celular in vitro está posibilitando el desarrollo de sofisticados dispositivos que tienen como finalidad tratar de imitar ...