Doroudgarian, Newsha (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
The presented work is a part of the ongoing effort on the development of high performance bio-based composites with enhanced durability, under static and dynamic mechanical loading including the exposure ...
Sousa Pais Antunes, Marcelo de (Date of defense: 2010-07-23)
En esta tesis doctoral se presenta la preparación y caracterización de espumas rígidas multifuncionales obtenidas a partir de compuestos y nanocompuestos en base polietileno (PE) y polipropileno (PP), ...
Melk, Latifa (Date of defense: 2016-05-20)
In the last decades there has been growing interest in developing ceramic materials with high fracture toughness (Klc) and strength for structural applications. In the specific case of 3 mol% yttria-doped ...
Khurana, Kanupriya (Date of defense: 2017-11-10)
Bone is among the most transplanted tissues for regeneration of bone defects, caused by trauma, age-related bone loss or bone infections. Due to their similar characteristics to the mineral phase of ...
Buxadera Palomero, Judit (Date of defense: 2017-07-19)
Titanium dental implants are a commonly used solution for the replacement of lost teeth. Even though the success rate is high, the number of infections related to the placement of the implant is still ...
Díez Escudero, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)
Bone is the most transplanted tissue after blood. As pointed out by the World Health Organization, musculoskeletal diseases can potentially rise as the fourth largest cause of disability within the next ...
Marques, André Canal (Date of defense: 2016-02-23)
The growing demand for innovation and the ever-shorter product lifespan result in a great amount and diversity of waste disposal at dumps and landfills. One of the fastest growing waste types nowadays ...
Yalamanchili, Phani Kumar (Date of defense: 2016-11-09)
Physical vapor deposited hard coatings comprised of cubic (c) transition metal (TM)-Al-N, and (TM)-Si-N are the current work horse materials for a large number of metal cutting and wear resistant ...
Sevilla Sánchez, Pablo (Date of defense: 2013-07-16)
Esta tesis queda enmarcada en el ámbito de los biomateriales metálicos, concretamente en superficies de titanio desarrolladas para la regeneración ósea. Las aplicaciones más habituales del titanio como ...
Baez Gaxiola, Martha Raquel (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)
The aim of the present thesis is to fabricate, to applicate, and to integrate nanomaterial-based chemical sensors with electrochemical transduction for the detection of water pollutants. This work is ...