Calderón Díaz, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2019-10-24)
Renewable energies have a major role in today’s energy systems development, energy security and climate change fight. Thermal Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) has the potential to get up to 11.3% of ...
Pagès Casas, Josep M. (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
Particles dispersed in nematic liquid crystals (NLCs), also called nematic colloids, are nowadays typical experimental systems studied in the field of Soft Matter. In this scenario, the interactions and ...
Francese, Tommaso (Date of defense: 2019-03-25)
In this work, we characterized and studied the properties associated to DTA-based bistable organic molecular magnetic systems, namely PDTA and TDPDTA, respectively. In both cases, the low and high ...
Ye, Zhihong (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Organic micropollutants, including pharmaceuticals, personal care products (PCPs), pesticides, dyes and many other industrial chemicals have become one of the most solid barriers for the effective and ...
Blancafort Jorquera, Miquel (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
The study of superfluid helium has been carried out mainly by physicists. In recent years, taking advantage of the potentialities presented by superfluid helium nanodroplets (HeNDs) as inert matrices ...
Calvo de la Rosa, Jaume (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
This doctoral Thesis has been focused on the preparation of magnetic materials by different methods, the characterization of their structural characteristics, and the understanding of their mechanical ...
Alonso Benito, Gerard (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Two main topics are treated in this doctoral thesis from a theoretical and computational point of view: the gas capture and separation from post-combustion flue gases, and the enhanced oil recovery from ...
Prats Garcia, Hèctor (Date of defense: 2019-03-25)
The research work presented in this thesis is divided in two main topics: gas separation and heterogeneous catalysis. Although the systems studied in one part and another are quite different, they share ...