Martí Barroso, Mireia (Date of defense: 2013-07-08)
The intention and purpose of the present thesis is to prepare a series of protective coatings using some conducting polymers (CPs) as corrosion inhibitors. The use of organic paints is the most common ...
Gallego Iradi, María Gabriela (Date of defense: 2016-10-24)
Plants analyzed in this study, aromatic plants (Rosmarinus officinalis, Thymus vulgaris and Lavandula officinalis) and other plants (Caesalpinia decapetala, Caesalpinia spinosa (Tara) and Morinda ...
Sánchez Jiménez, Margarita (Date of defense: 2017-10-25)
Since their discovery, the spectacular properties of polymers called "conducting" have given rise to an important field of study in order to obtain knowledge about them and their commercial application ...
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 ...
Mayans Tayadella, Enric (Date of defense: 2017-12-18)
Since the pioneering work of Reches and Gazit in 2003, in which the formation of diphenylalanine (FF) nanotubes in aqueous solution was discovered, significant efforts have been made to develop a new ...
Tolentino Chivite, Ainhoa (Date of defense: 2014-04-29)
Biopolymers are polymers produced by living organisms. A more broad classification would embrace also those polymers synthesized from renewable sources which are able to display biodegradability. The ...
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 ...
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