Badia i Córcoles, Jordi Hug (Date of defense: 2016-11-07)
Functionalized ion-exchange resins are polymer-based materials that can be used as catalysts, in a wide variety of chemical reactions, to achieve highly selective formation of desired products at ...
López Cristoffanini, Camilo Alonso (Date of defense: 2019-03-11)
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is without doubt one of the major crops worldwide, as its consumption is continuously increasing, especially in low- and lower-middle-income countries where it is the most important ...
Juvert Sández, Joan (Date of defense: 2014-07-04)
We have characterized electroluminescent devices based on silicon rich oxide and/or silicon rich nitride. We have discussed the photoluminescence and structural characterization of the active layers and ...
Bartrolí Comellas, Mariona (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Targeting cancer metastasis has gained considerable importance in the recent years when aiming to increase patients’ overall survival. In Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), the discovery of metastatic biomarkers ...
Linares Arroyo, Hector (Date of defense: 2021-07-27)
The term light pollution refers to different harmful effects produced by artificial light sources. This phenomena affects observational astronomy, the flora and fauna of the species adapted to the natural ...
Seillé, Hoël (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
The Iberian Peninsula is considered as a “micro-continent”, located between the Eurasian and the African plates. Several ranges formed during the Alpine orogeny, in the borders of the plate or intraplate. ...
Tibau Martorell, Elisenda (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
In the present thesis, we propose to explore neuronal circuits at the mesoscale, an approach in which one monitors small populations of few thousand neurons and concentrates in the emergence of collective ...
Baldomá, Inmaculada (Date of defense: 2001-01-01)
In general, when beginning to explore any scientific field, one focuses on the generic situations; that is, one centers on the behaviours that appear in “most” of the cases encountered in practice. This ...
Izquierdo Serra, Mercè (Date of defense: 2014-05-06)
Optical tools to control neuronal activity include synthetic photoswitchable ligands of receptors and ion channels. Photoswitches can act either as soluble molecules (photochromic ligands, PCLs) or ...
Casanellas Vilageliu, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)
Wormlike micelles are viscoelastic fluids that present an intermediate behavior between solids and ordinary liquids since they are elastic at short time scales but flow easily at large time scales. In ...