Volpe, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2008-10-23)
The ability of detecting farces and torques at the micro-and nano-scale is fundamental. When this Thesis started, various scanning probe techniques had already been developed to probe the mechanical ...
Martínez Sánchez, Ignacio A. (Date of defense: 2014-04-25)
Almost two centuries after the first observations of Robert Brown, the study of systems ruled by noise has become a significant part of modern physics and other so diverse situations, such as the stock ...
Raj, Saurabh (Date of defense: 2012-11-05)
This thesis is devoted to the study of mechanochemistry of single cells and single biomolecules. Mechanochemistry relates to the association of mechanical and chemical occurrence at the molecular level. ...
Marro Sánchez, Mònica (Date of defense: 2013-07-12)
Since its discovery in 1928, Raman spectroscopy (RS) has produced a revolution in the fields of analytical chemistry and molecular detection. Thanks to the latest technical advances, the expectations ...