Palacios Padrós, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-02-26)
The study of the electrochemical oxidation behaviour of tin in alkaline media, the development of anodic self-ordered tin oxide nanostructures and its application to laboratory scale devices have been ...
Marcos Benteo, Enrique (Date of defense: 2012-01-16)
Enzymes are the most proficient catalysts that evolution has developed to assist the chemical reactions that make life possible. By means of molecular simulations the present thesis addresses three ...
Demiroglu, Ilker (Date of defense: 2014-02-27)
Throughout this thesis, we have studied ZnO and its properties in a bottom-up manner through a dimensionality range starting from 0D nanoparticles to 3D bulk phases. For the 0D clusters and the 2D ...
García Torres, José Manuel (Date of defense: 2010-05-28)
The electrodeposition is a technique that day by day is gaining positions among the mainly employed physical methods. This is due to the fact that electrodeposition shows some advantages over the physical ...
Diez Pérez, Ismael (Date of defense: 2006-12-01)
OF THE PhD.<br/><br/><br/>This PhD project has been fully developed at the department of physical-chemistry of the University of Barcelona. The work involves a fundamental study of passivity on iron ...
Thiam, Abdoulaye (Date of defense: 2015-07-20)
The present Doctoral Thesis constitutes a comprehensive study of the removal of food azo dyes in aqueous matrices by single and coupled electrochemical separation and destruction technologies. First, ...
Pozuelo Ruiz, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
Electron Transfer (ET) is undoubtedly one of the most important processes in life. Molecularly well-defined ET pathways in complex protein ensembles play a vital role in biological processes such as ...
Acebes Serrano, Sandra (Date of defense: 2016-09-08)
Enzymes are proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions and their use report multiple advantages, as they can be very selective, low polluting (biodegradable), cheap and allow working in mild conditions ...
Fumanal Quintana, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
Interest in organic molecule-based materials has extraordinarily grown in both the electronic and data storage industries. Specifically, research in the development of new plastic devices for technological ...
Obiol Pardo, Cristian (Date of defense: 2008-10-13)
Cancer is the second disease leading cause of death in industrialized countries. Although early detection and more efficient drugs are responsible of the reduction of mortality, several cancers still ...