Facultat de Física: Recent submissions
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Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Nucleic Acids Folding
[eng] This doctoral work investigates nucleic acids' thermodynamic and kinetic properties. The main objective is the characterization of the energetics and the folding mechanisms driving the hybridization of DNA and RNA ...
Biomechanics of the progression of colorectal carcinomas
[eng] Living tissues are active materials with the ability to undergo drastic shape and dimension transitions. If properly controlled, these morphological changes allow various physiological phenomena such as embryonic ...
Advanced Characterization of Interfaces of the Chalcogenide-Based Absorbers for the Thin Film Photovoltaic Technologies
[eng] The thesis Advanced Characterization of Interfaces of the Chalcogenide-Based Absorbers for the Thin Film Photovoltaic Technologies is based on six articles that are published in high impact factor peer-reviewed ...
Calculations of water free energy in bulk and large biological systems
[eng] This thesis develops, validates, and explores applications of the Franzese-Stanley (FS) coarse-grained model for bulk water, ultimately intended to represent the solvent in large-scale simulations of biological ...
Testing the Standard Model with radiative beauty and rare strange decays at LHCb
[eng] This thesis focuses in the analysis of radative b-decays and rare strange decays, using data recorded by the LHCb, at the LHC during the Run 2 period. Two analyses are presented in the thesis, both flavour changing ...
Peptide functionalized polymeric nanocarriers: Towards selective targeting of prostate cancer
[eng] Prostate cancer is one of the most frequently encountered malignancies, with 1.4 million new cases in the past year, marking the second leading cause of deaths in men worldwide. Although it is known to be treatable ...
Developing supramolecular polymers for drug delivery
[eng] A strategy that is being intensively explored to efficiently deliver pharmaceuticals involves drug delivery systems. These carriers should greatly improve the pharmacokinetics of drugs, while providing a selective ...
Optimization of Memristors for Information Storage and Neuromorphic Computing
[eng] The total amount of global information to be stored and computed is increasing exponentially since the beginning of the 21st century. The semiconductor industry made great efforts to push the silicon-based integrated ...
Understanding the measurements and variability of aerosol optical properties in NE Spain
[eng] Atmospheric aerosol particles are key for regulating Earth’s atmosphere processes, and are estimated to present an overall cooling effect on the Earth’s climate. Given the current climate change crisis, and the need ...
Non-Equilibrium Self-Assembly: Formation and Function of Meso-Structures with Applications in Biology and Material Science
[eng] A set of disordered interacting building blocks may form ordered structures via self-assembly. External intervention in the system through the addition of chemical species or the application of forces leads to different ...
Dark Matter and Massive Neutrinos: Cosmological Probes of Physics Beyond the Standard Model
[eng] The overwhelming evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe, and the discovery of the neutrino masses, are striking indicators of the need for new physics beyond the ΛCDM and Standard Model paradigms. ...
Development of high-resolution L4 ocean wind products
[eng] Heat, moisture, gas, and momentum exchanges at the oceanic and atmospheric interface modulate, inter alia, the Earth’s heat and carbon budgets, global circulation, and dynamical modes. Sea surface winds are fundamental ...
Electrohydrodynamic jet printing: stability and reproducibility
[eng] Additive manufacturing, also referred as 3D printing, is a layer-by-layer technique that allows producing three-dimensional objects directly from a digital model. It has enabled the fabrication of innovative products ...
Processament de perfils de precipitació obtinguts amb radar Doppler
[cat] En la actualitat les dades obtingudes amb instruments de teledetecció (mesures obtingudes a distància) formen una part essencial en l’àmbit de la meteorologia. Aquestes dades s’obtenen amb diversos sensors de tipus ...
Advancing cancer precision medicine through cell-based functional assays and microfluidics. Finding the needle in a haystack to improve pediatric leukemia treatment
[eng] Personalized medicine has emerged to improve cancer treatment beyond classical approaches. The identification of genetic mutations by molecular analyses dominate personalized medicine initiatives promoting clinical ...
Algorithms for light applications: from theoretical simulations to prototyping
[eng] Although the first LED dates to the middle of the 20th century, it has not been until the last decade that the market has been flooded with high efficiency and high durability LED solutions compared to previous ...
Functional design of nanocomposites and their applications in energy conversion and storage
[eng] This thesis focuses on the functional design and preparation of different kind of nanocomposites and their applications in energy conversion and storage technologies, particular in OER, HER, H2O2ER and LSBs. For the ...
Investigating pathological extracellular matrix architecture
[eng] The composition and architecture of the extracellular matrix (ECM), and their dynamic alterations, play an essential regulatory role in numerous cellular processes. Furthermore, structural, and biochemical properties ...
Making the most of imaging and spectroscopy in TEM: computer simulations for materials science problems
[eng] Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), since its first implementation by Ernst August Friedrich Ruska and Max Knoll in 1931, has been an essential technique in the nanoscience and nanotechnology field. In the ...
Engineered functional 3D spheroids for β-cell encapsulation
[eng] Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is known to be associated with the immune-mediated destruction of insulin-secreting β-cells. Cell replacement therapy is thought to be a potential long-lasting cure for diabetes. In ...
