Torruella Besa, Pau (Date of defense: 2019-04-26)
[eng] The aim of this thesis has been two-fold. First, to develop new processing and analysis tools and strategies for extracting information from EELS data, and second, to apply the methods to different ...
Yang, Dawei (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) have attracted extensive research interest for the development of advanced energy storage technology. However, the practical implementation of LSBs still suffers from ...
Becerril Romero, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2019-10-28)
The development of sustainable energy sources with a high energy return on energy investment (EROI) that can substitute fossil fuels is a must in order to avoid the collapse of our current civilization. ...
Zhang, Chaoqi (Date of defense: 2022-07-04)
Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) are regarded as the most promising candidate to replace Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in next-generation energy storage systems. Compared with LIBs, LSBs are characterized ...
Yu, Zhang (Date of defense: 2021-01-25)
The bottom-up engineering of nanomaterials using solution-processing strategies is of particular interest for reducing cost and optimizing the performance of TE materials and devices. This thesis focuses ...
Zuo, Yong (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)
Storing the fluctuating renewable energy into synthetic fuels or in batteries is meaningful due to the emerging energy crisis. In this thesis, four nanostructured catalysts based on two kinds of metal ...
Mestre Castillo, Rafael (Date of defense: 2020-11-26)
Hybrid bio-robotics is a discipline that aims at integrating biological entities with synthetic materials to incorporate features from biological systems that have been optimized through millions of ...
Wang, Xiang (Date of defense: 2022-07-11)
Cobalt-based nanomaterials are an important class of electrocatalysts that own abundant and diverse d-orbital electronic structures, and can exhibit excellent HER, OER, EOR catalytic activity and stability ...
Yue, Zhang (Date of defense: 2020-09-18)
Clinical treatments based on electrical stimulation of excitable cells have been efficacious for a variety of diseases. However, these devices are often limited by their bulkiness, need for wiring ...
Yu, Xiaoting (Date of defense: 2020-06-30)
This thesis focuses on the synthesis of different types of NCs, their application to energy conversion and storage technologies, particularly LIBs, KIBs and DEFCs, and their structural transformation ...