Marín Pareja, Nathalia (Date of defense: 2014-02-14)
To obtain a regeneration and integration of gingival tissues onto the dental implant surface, is essential to achieve an appropriate cellular response. To promote an appropriate cellular response, ...
Castellanos Arboleda, Maria Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-05-05)
Cobalt-chromium (CoCr) alloys are widely used as biomaterials for coronary stents due to their excellent mechanical properties, biocompatibility and corrosion resistance. However, these materials are ...
Pérez Antoñanzas, Román (Date of defense: 2011-07-22)
When bone regeneration is needed, natural bone grafts are widely used. They are the best option since they present the same composition to that of bone, contain living cells with osteogenic potential, ...
Fraioli, Roberta (Date of defense: 2016-11-14)
Despite being biocompatible and with adequate mechanical properties for application as a bone replacement material, titanium lacks osteoinductive capacity, i.e. it supports new bone growth on its surface ...
Valle Fresno, Sergio del (Date of defense: 2011-05-27)
Los cementos de fosfato de calcio son biomateriales utilizados para la regeneración ósea. En esta tesis doctoral se estudia la influencia de la microestructura y la macroporosidad en el comportamiento ...
Mestres Bea, Gemma (Date of defense: 2012-07-09)
This Thesis aims at the development of two novel families of inorganic phosphate cements with suitable characteristics for clinical applications in hard tissue regeneration or replacement. It is organized ...
Chen, Yu-Hsiang (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)
Hard coating 's thermal stability is essential due to the high temperature environment of high-speed cutting applications, while the induced phase and microstructure evolution affects the mechanical ...
Zheng, Yafeng (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
Cemented carbides, also referred to as hardmetals, are composite materials consisting of brittle refractory carbide phase (generally WC) embedded in a metallic matrix. Such microstructure leads to an ...
Yang, Jing, 1988- (Date of defense: 2016-05-31)
This thesis assesses the influence of substrate surface integrity on different mechanical (flexural strength and contact damage resistance under spherical indentation) and tribological (scratch resistance ...
Vilà Ramírez, Narciso (Date of defense: 2014-02-28)
This PhD thesis investigated the incorporation of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS) in thermoplastic base materials via melt-blending procedures. Particularly, a focus is taken on the ...