Nin Hill, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-10-26)
Carbohydrates were early considered important for energy storage and structural support for living organisms. It was not until a few decades ago that scientist discovered that they are also involved in ...
Pereira de Magalhaes e Couto, Miguel (Date of defense: 2014-11-10)
The main subject of this Thesis is the production of hard, wear and corrosion resistant cermets tungsten carbide and cobalt cermets (WC-Co) with different contents in cobalt matrix, onto low carbon ...
Martínez Prats, Raimon (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)
[eng] Remote high mountains allow the study of the environmental fate of legacy and emerging anthropogenic chemicals that form a worldwide diffuse background layer of pollution. Semi- volatile compounds ...
Borràs Tudurí, Roser (Date of defense: 2018-07-06)
The Immune System (IS) is a complex collection of tissues, organs, cells and molecules to defense the body against threatens. IS is organized into two lines of defense: innate immunity which acts in a ...
Mendieta Martínez, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-06-06)
Proteases are involved in a high number of diseases, and thus, are relevant targets. For that reason our main goal was the discovery of protease inhibitors as therapeutic agents. We focused our study ...
Zamudio Vázquez, Rubí (Date of defense: 2014-02-14)
Triostins are members of the quinoxaline antibiotic family, together with the "prototypical bisintercalator" echinomycin. These molecules display interesting antitumour activities as they inhibit ...
Matencio Lloberas, Sonia (Date of defense: 2015-10-29)
Organic/inorganic interfaces play a key role in organic electronic devices such as organic light emitting diodes (OLED), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic solar cells (OSC). In these ...
Vega Domínguez, Lorena (Date of defense: 2021-12-21)
Nanoparticles are highly relevant for catalysis due to their nanostructure, which increases the fraction of surface atoms, and the size dependent morphology and properties. Catalytic properties of ...
Gil Escolano, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
Marine natural products (MNPs) are, undoubtedly, highly valuable starting points for drug-development programs. Generally, MNPs show a well-defined spatial orientation that have evolved for thousands ...
Jurado Mañas, Anabel (Date of defense: 2023-06-21)
[eng] MXene materials, the low-dimensional counterpart of transition metal carbides and nitrides present suitable properties as catalysts in heterogeneous catalysis given the similar properties with ...