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 ...
Mondelo-Martell, Manel (Date of defense: 2018-06-18)
Quantum confinement effects, understood as the changes on the structure and dynamics of a molecule when it goes from a free environment to a cavity with some characteristic length of the order of the ...
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 ...
Alonso Benito, Gerard (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Two main topics are treated in this doctoral thesis from a theoretical and computational point of view: the gas capture and separation from post-combustion flue gases, and the enhanced oil recovery from ...
Prats Garcia, Hèctor (Date of defense: 2019-03-25)
The research work presented in this thesis is divided in two main topics: gas separation and heterogeneous catalysis. Although the systems studied in one part and another are quite different, they share ...
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 ...
Garcia Cardona, Júlia (Date of defense: 2023-12-04)
[eng] Conventional catalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells are based on Pt supported on porous carbons, generally carbon blacks. However, Pt is expensive and scarce and is poisoned by CO, which is ...
Oriol López, Roger (Date of defense: 2023-10-23)
[eng] Groundwater has been traditionally considered a reliable source of freshwater. However, the low replenishment rates and the increasing contamination due to different anthropogenic activities, such ...
López Jiménez, Isabel (Date of defense: 2023-05-03)
[spa] Durante los últimos años el estudio de las aleaciones de alta entropía, o high entropy alloys (HEA), ha sido un tema en auge. Las HEA presentan de cinco a más elementos en proporción equimolar y ...