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 ...
Kozlov, Sergey (Date of defense: 2015-01-16)
The role of heterogeneous catalysts in modern society is immense. The majority of catalysts are nanostructured solely in order to increase the fraction of atoms on their surface. The nanostructuring, ...
Bruix Fusté, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-02-17)
This thesis focuses on the computational study of models for platinum catalysts supported on cerium oxide (CeO2) which are of technological relevance. In these catalysts, ceria is often found acting as ...
Vilà Casanovas, Arnau (Date of defense: 2015-09-30)
The present thesis presents several theoretical studies on the dynamical processes of physicochemical interest involving superfluid helium (4He) nanodroplets. It has been developed a theoretical approach ...
Güell Riera, Oriol (Date of defense: 2015-02-12)
The thesis called “A network-based approach to cell metabolism: from structure to flux balances” shows how the vision of cell metabolism as a whole allows to unveil new mechanisms and responses impossible ...
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 ...
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, ...