Buxadera Palomero, Judit (Date of defense: 2017-07-19)
Titanium dental implants are a commonly used solution for the replacement of lost teeth. Even though the success rate is high, the number of infections related to the placement of the implant is still ...
Díez Escudero, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)
Bone is the most transplanted tissue after blood. As pointed out by the World Health Organization, musculoskeletal diseases can potentially rise as the fourth largest cause of disability within the next ...
Akbarzadeh, Ebrahim (Date of defense: 2016-10-20)
The metal matrix composites (MMC) are widely used in different applications and offer high strength-to-weight ratio. In this thesis, it was developed a novel method to fabricate composite material in ...
Marques, André Canal (Date of defense: 2016-02-23)
The growing demand for innovation and the ever-shorter product lifespan result in a great amount and diversity of waste disposal at dumps and landfills. One of the fastest growing waste types nowadays ...
Yalamanchili, Phani Kumar (Date of defense: 2016-11-09)
Physical vapor deposited hard coatings comprised of cubic (c) transition metal (TM)-Al-N, and (TM)-Si-N are the current work horse materials for a large number of metal cutting and wear resistant ...
Sevilla Sánchez, Pablo (Date of defense: 2013-07-16)
Esta tesis queda enmarcada en el ámbito de los biomateriales metálicos, concretamente en superficies de titanio desarrolladas para la regeneración ósea. Las aplicaciones más habituales del titanio como ...
Baez Gaxiola, Martha Raquel (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)
The aim of the present thesis is to fabricate, to applicate, and to integrate nanomaterial-based chemical sensors with electrochemical transduction for the detection of water pollutants. This work is ...
Muñoz Tabares, José Alejandro (Date of defense: 2010-11-12)
The use of zirconia ceramics (ZrO2) as advanced structural materials is based on toughness increasing by tetragonal to monoclinic (tm) phase transformation. Of these, the 3Y-TZP (tetragonal polycrystalline ...
Safari, Alaleh (Date of defense: 2017-03-31)
Total hip replacement (THR) has been one of the most successful surgeries in the 21st century. Ultra-high-molecular-weight-polyethylene (UHMWPE) shows favorable mechanical and tribological properties ...
Punset Fuste, Miquel (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)
Material engineering has always played a defining role in industry by improving materials and tribological properties, increasing lite time use and thus ultimately reducing material costs. Over the ...
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (52)
66 - Chemical technology. Chemical and related industries (26)
616.7 - Pathology of the organs of locomotion. Skeletal and locomotor systems (6)
616.3 - Pathology of the digestive system. Complaints of the alimentary canal (5)