Wang, Yan (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
The photocatalytic hydrogen production is considered an environmentally promising and friendly method, which could lead to achieve clean and renewable hydrogen and contribute in the future to store solar ...
Pajares Rojas, Arturo Javier (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
Nowadays there is a growing interest in the capture and utilization of CO2 because of the increase of its concentration in the atmosphere. Captured CO2 can be recycled through different processes to ...
Navarro-Segarra, Marina (Date of defense: 2022-07-27)
Digital technologies are generating a global transformation with economic, social, and environmental implications. Digitalization has already shown many benefits to society; however, it is also generating ...
Bernuz Fito, Efrem (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
For many years symmetry has been a useful concept in the study of the spatial organization of atoms in molecules or solids. The presence of symmetry elements in a given molecular structure gives a ...
Casas Papell, Gemma (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
Since the industrial revolution, we have introduced thousands or tens of thousands of new synthetic compounds, originating a new environmental perturbation in the Earth’s system. Among these, there are ...
Riefolo, Fabio (Date of defense: 2020-07-29)
Modern medical treatments are largely based on the ability of pharmacological drugs to interact with a molecular target in the human body (e.g., receptors) in order to evoke a physiological response. ...
Vaz, Rodolpho Fernando (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
[eng] Additive manufacturing (AM) is a process of creating a physical object by adding material layer by layer rather than removing material through machining. It is also known as 3D printing, as it ...
Mas-Ponte, David (Date of defense: 2022-11-14)
[eng] Somatic cells accumulate mutations in their genome from a set of exogenous and endogenous processes. The interplay of DNA lesions and the DNA repair mechanisms in each cell shape the genetic ...
Lozano Reis, Pablo (Date of defense: 2023-11-10)
[eng] Global warming and climate change, mostly due to the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, are producing devastating effects. Among the different greenhouse gases, CO2 ...
García Vara, Manuel (Date of defense: 2023-06-13)
[eng] This doctoral thesis aims at providing novel analytical tools for the environmental control of CECs in waters and crops and generating new knowledge about i) the occurrence and fate of CECs in the ...