Luna, Raimon (Date of defense: 2020-06-22)
In this thesis we apply new approaches and develop new techniques to address various issues related to fundamental aspects of modern gravitational theory and black holes. We study the behavior of ...
Rueda García, Daniel (Date of defense: 2020-09-15)
Flow cells are on their way to become a key player for electrical energy storage (EES) thanks to their suitability as load-levelling devices thus contributing to the development of smart grid and to ...
Sopeña i Martínez, Pol (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Printed electronics appeared in the 1980s as a cost-effective alternative to silicon-based electronics. Employing the techniques from the graphics industry, such as rotogravure or screen printing, it ...
Han, Tingting (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
With the burning of large amounts of traditional fossil fuels, global environmental pollution is getting worse and worse, and energy crisis is becoming more serious for meeting human’s ...
Wijsen, Nicolas (Date of defense: 2020-04-30)
Our modern society is becoming increasingly dependent on the constant stream of information sent out by satellites orbiting Earth. However, highly energetic rays traversing the near-Earth space environment ...
Solorzano Soria, Ana Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-05)
In some types of fire, namely, smoldering fires or involving polymers without flame, gases and volatiles appear before smoke is released. Most of the fatalities registered for fires, are caused due to ...
Vila Giraut, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-12-10)
Conventional in vitro cell culture models do not possess the complexity that the native tissues offer. Because of this, the functional properties of the tissues are not properly mimicked, which causes ...
Lledó Ponsatí, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2020-12-09)
In order to mitigate the climate change effects, the world is undergoing an energy transition from polluting sources towards renewable energies. This transition is turning the electricity system more ...
Ramos, Pau (Date of defense: 2020-09-25)
The Gaia mission and its extensive catalogue of stars has marked the beginning of the Golden Age of Galactic dynamics. We have now access to the kinematics of more than a billion stars with ...
Dal Cengio, Sara (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Most systems in Nature manifest complex transport phenomena arising from the interplay of multiple time and length scales, be them intrinsic in the system’s dynamics or externally enforced. It is the ...