Alcaraz Segura, Aurora (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)
The energy model in the last decades has been dominated by the consumption of fossil fuels assuming a high environmental cost. Global warming and the destruction of the ozone layer are two examples of ...
Tapias Camacho, Mauricio Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)
This thesis presents a study of the mechanical behaviour of coarse-crushable aggregates, using the discrete element method (DEM). A novel DEM model has been developed taking into account particle breakage, ...
Zhao, Zhitong (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)
From a chemical and structural point of view, hydroxyapatite (HA) is a strong candidate in biomedical applications owing to its similarity to the inorganic components of bones and teeth. HA nanoparticles ...
Charles-Harris Ferrer, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2007-10-17)
The field of Tissue Engineering has developed in response to the shortcomings associated to the replacement of tissues lost to disease or trauma: donor tissue rejection, chronic inflammation, and donor ...
Marín Bernabé, Romina (Date of defense: 2009-05-07)
Esta tesis doctoral está dirigida al desarrollo de poliuretanos a partir de dioles derivados de carbohidratos. Los poliuretanos son polímeros muy versátiles que pueden ser usados en una amplia variedad ...
Bin Raja-Nazri, Raja Nazrul Hakim (Date of defense: 2018-06-01)
PLA nanocomposites sheets that is rnodified with multi-functional epoxide reactive agent (Joncryi4300F, BASF, Germany) were manufacturad using reactive extrusion in a pilot plant. A commercial grade of ...
Chaparro Sánchez, M. Carme (Date of defense: 2016-03-04)
Cementitious materials are used as barriers in radioactive waste storage. Hence, transport processes in this kind of material are important. The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding ...
Flamant, Quentin (Date of defense: 2016-07-20)
Debido a sus excelentes propiedades mecánicas y una excelente biocompatibilidad, el uso de las cerámicas de base de circona en aplicaciones dentales y ortopédicas ha crecido rápidamente durante las ...
Gedler Chacón, Gabriel Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-07-12)
The goal of this research was to determine the relations between processing, structure and properties of polycarbonate-graphene nanoplatelets (PC-GnP) foams. Using two different foaming processes (in ...
Perea Solano, Blanca (Date of defense: 2004-07-05)
CERN is presently constructing the LHC, which will produce collisions of 7 TeV protons in 4 interaction points at a design luminosity of 1034 cm-2 s-1. The radiation dose resulting from the operation ...