Genova-Koleva, Radostina Vasileva (Date of defense: 2017-09-14)
In this thesis, the hydrogen obtained in a PEM water electrolizer (PEMWE) as a reactant to produce methanol when combined with the CO2 captured from the combustion of fossil fuels is proposed. Methanol ...
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 ...
Martínez Prat, Berta (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)
[eng] One of the most striking phenomena of active fluids, i.e., fluids composed of self-propelled constituents, is the emergence of chaotic spatiotemporal flows. "This regime, reminiscent of inertial ...
Guillamat Bassedas, Pau (Date of defense: 2017-06-23)
Groups of animals, bacterial colonies, cellular tissues and assemblies of subcellular extracts are some examples of experimental systems studied in the field of Active Soft Matter. All of them are ...
Martín Vilardell, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-01-25)
The Cold Spray (CS) is a novelty technique for the production of coatings within the field of Thermal Spray. The use of low work temperatures (under the melting point of the material) is what makes it ...
Alcón Rovira, Isaac (Date of defense: 2018-03-14)
In this PhD thesis I have studied through state-of-the-art quantum simulations (mainly within the density functional theory approach, DFT) triarylmethyl (TAM) based systems with potential for future ...
Cortijos i Aragonès, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-05-22)
Inspired by the proposal that single molecules will be functional elements of future nanoelectronic and Spintronics devices, there exists considerable interest in understanding charge transport in ...
Tahghighi, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2022-01-13)
Nanoparticle self-assembly is a versatile and coherent strategy for the development of functional nanostructured materials, offering low-cost and scalable methods that can be fine-tuned for many different ...
Saranjam, Leila (Date of defense: 2023-10-30)
[eng] A compound’s solvent−water partition coefficient (log P) measures the equilibrium ratio of the compound’s concentrations in a two-phase system: as two solvents in contact or a system of micelles ...