Márquez Lobato, Yolanda (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
Biomaterials based on block segmented copolymers constituted by hard and soft segments have attracted much attention for biomedical applications in the last decades, specifically as absorbable monofilament ...
Acosta Reyes, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2016-05-26)
Non-coding DNA is rich in adenines and thymines. Their unique properties, such as high polymorphism, flexibility, transitional states that lead to DNA hairpin formation and the possibility to adopt ...
Gamarra Montes, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
In recent years, the increasing public concern about the environmental pollution caused by persistent plastic wastes has stimulated the interest in replacing synthetic polymers by biopolymers. The term ...
Triguero Enguídanos, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
In this thesis, different theoretical approaches designed to study a wide interval of length- and/or time-scales have been used to examine the microscopic properties of chemical systems with varying ...
Rios Rubiras, Oriol (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
Wildfires are an ecological phenomenon inherent to earth dynamics and widely spread over the globe. In addition to the environmental impact, when wildfires grow beyond controllable magnitudes, they pose ...