Sancho Jodar, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
Enzyme catalysis has been scaled up for several industrial sectors during the last decades, including pharmaceutics, food and beverages. This raised the interest of other industries such as energy or ...
Oncins Marco, Gerard (Date of defense: 2007-09-21)
The main objective of this work was to quantitatively measure the nanotribological properties or organic layers and rationalize them from a physicochemical point of view. To accomplish that, a wide array ...
Kozlov, Sergey (Date of defense: 2015-01-16)
The role of heterogeneous catalysts in modern society is immense. The majority of catalysts are nanostructured solely in order to increase the fraction of atoms on their surface. The nanostructuring, ...
Bruix Fusté, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-02-17)
This thesis focuses on the computational study of models for platinum catalysts supported on cerium oxide (CeO2) which are of technological relevance. In these catalysts, ceria is often found acting as ...
Huarte Larrañaga, Fermín (Date of defense: 1999-01-01)
En la tesis doctoral se detallan los trabajos realizados en el marco del estudio de la dinámica de reacciones químicas elementales. La tesis está estructurada de modo que primero se muestran los resultados ...
Díaz Delgado, Raül (Date of defense: 2002-09-30)
En la actualidad existe una preocupación creciente en lo concerniente a los problemas medioambientales provocados por la actividad humana y en cómo estos problemas pueden afectar a nuestra salud. Uno ...
Vilà Casanovas, Arnau (Date of defense: 2015-09-30)
The present thesis presents several theoretical studies on the dynamical processes of physicochemical interest involving superfluid helium (4He) nanodroplets. It has been developed a theoretical approach ...
Rodà Llordés, Sergi (Date of defense: 2023-01-10)
[eng] The increase in production over the last centuries has come at the expense of compromising the environment, urging the need to find solutions. Enzymes are the essential molecules that make life ...
Sirés Sadornil, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2007-01-12)
Paracetamol, clofibric acid and chlorophene are paradigms of NSAIDs, blood lipid regulators and antimicrobials, respectively, which are three of the top sales PPCPs therapeutical groups all throughout ...
Güell Riera, Oriol (Date of defense: 2015-02-12)
The thesis called “A network-based approach to cell metabolism: from structure to flux balances” shows how the vision of cell metabolism as a whole allows to unveil new mechanisms and responses impossible ...