Sciandra, Dario (Date of defense: 2024-02-09)
(English) Geological Carbon Storage (GCS) holds immense promise for mitigating atmospheric CO2 emissions, making the sealing capacity of caprocks pivotal as storage scales up. Despite excellent sealing ...
Alonso Travesset, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2023-07-14)
(English) The rise of distributed generation systems (DGSs) is crucial for the energy transition. The reduction in renewable energy costs and increasing implementation of environmentally-friendly policies ...
Urbano González, Eva María (Date of defense: 2023-06-01)
(English) The current energy transition fosters the insertion of renewable energies and system decentralisation intending to achieve a more secure, sustainable and efficient energy market. The industry ...
Macdonald, James Duncan (Date of defense: 2023-07-03)
(English) This thesis examines agrivoltaics, ecovoltaics, and agriecovoltaics (A/E/ÆPV): innovative alternative formats of ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) projects which integrate agricultural ...
Solé Martí, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-07-13)
(English) This PhD thesis is framed in the European Research Council starting grant project "Atmospheric Pressure plasma meets biomaterials far bone Cancer HEaling (APACHE)". The APACHE project is focused ...
Oliver Cervelló, Lluís (Date of defense: 2022-11-03)
(English) Mimicking bone extracellular matrix (ECM) is essential to improve cell-material interactions. In this regard, the functionalization of materials with biomolecules derived from the bone ECM is ...
Cecilia Piñol, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-04-19)
(English) Critical energy challenges are forcing a rapid modification of the current energy infrastructure. lndeed, larger renewable energy penetration, more distributed generation and storage, and ...
Giuliodori Picco, Agustina (Date of defense: 2023-11-30)
(English) The advancements in material science and innovative manufacturing techniques have created substantial possibilities for improving the functionality of medical devices, tailoring them to specific ...
Parareda Oriol, Sergi (Date of defense: 2023-12-04)
(English) Fatigue failures in materials have been studied for centuries, with early pioneers like August Wöhler noting that repeated loading, even below the static strength of the material, could lead ...