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    Energy Harvesting Solutions for Self-Powered Devices: From Structural Health Monitoring to Biomedical Applications 

    Álvarez-Carulla, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)

    The thesis reflects the research carried out on the development of truly self-powered devices. The development of devices for the scopes of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Point-of-Care devices (PoC) is shown. New ...

    Engineered functional 3D spheroids for β-cell encapsulation 

    Clua Ferré, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-09-30)

    [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 ...

    Engineered functional skeletal muscle tissues for in vitro studies 

    Fernández Garibay, Xiomara Gislen (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)

    The skeletal muscle is the largest tissue of the human body. Its main function is to generate contractile forces, essential for locomotion, thermogenesis, and metabolism. Fundamental research on skeletal muscle in health ...

    Engineering in vitro models of the intestinal mucosa to study the role of the stroma on the epithelium 

    Abad i Lázaro, Aina (Date of defense: 2023-07-20)

    [eng] The standard in vitro model of the small intestine in the field of drug development still consists in a monolayer of cancer-derived cells seeded on a hard substrate. Despite the huge advances that this model has ...

    Enhancing electrochemical performances of supercapacitors 

    Avireddy, Hemesh (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)

    The thesis is focused on the development and enhancement of the electrochemical properties of the carbon based supercapacitors and pseudocapacitors. To overcome the capacitance loss at the condition of fast charging in the ...

    Enzyme Powered Nanomotors Towards Biomedical Applications 

    Hortelão, Ana Cãndida (Date of defense: 2021-09-03)

    The advancements in nanotechnology enabled the development of new diagnostic tools and drug delivery systems based on nanosystems, which offer unique features such as large surface area to volume ratio, cargo loading ...

    Estudi dinàmic d'un sistema d'N cossos extensos, carregats i gravitants 

    Llosa, Josep (Date of defense: 1978-01-01)

    La solució del problema d'N cossos a la Teoria General de la Relativitat requereix la determinació, al mateix temps, del camp gravitatori deIs cossos considerats. La solució a aquest problema fou donada per primera vegada ...

    Estudio de la producción hadrónica en interaciones e+e- 

    Garrido Beltrán, Lluís (Date of defense: 1987-01-01)

    En los últimos años la Cromodinámica Cuántica (QCD) ha pasado de ser una candidata a describir las interacciones fuertes entre hadrones a ser un elemento indiscutible, junto con el modelo de Glashow, Weinberg y Salam de ...

    Estudio de las propiedades conformacionales de las proteínas mediante el uso de modelos de baja resolución basados en la discretización de las coordenadas internas 

    Martin Bandera, Francisco (Date of defense: 2018-07-16)

    El campo que estudia las propiedades y comportamiento de las proteínas así como las interacciones entre ellas es tan complejo que a día de hoy resulta complicada su caracterización en detalle, sea utilizando herramientas ...

    Estudio de las propiedades magnéticas de ftalocianinas y sistemas ferromagnéticos diluidos 

    Labarta, Amílcar (Date of defense: 1985-11-29)

    Los trabajos de esta memoria persiguen un doble objetivo. Por un lado se ha pretendido ahondar en modelos de campo cristalino para cationes 3d(n) y su correlación con los datos experimentales, de sustancias de interés ...

    Estudio de una transformación de fase por análisis térmico diferencial y emisión acústica 

    Planes Vila, Antoni (Date of defense: 1981-05-11)

    En este trabajo se presenta un estudio experimental de la transformación martensítica de la aleación ternaria Cu Zn Al. El estudio ha sido realizado mediante el uso de un dispositivo de medida, original, que permite ...

    Estudio por medio de espectroscopia picosegundo de los compuestos II-VI sometidos a fuerte excitación óptica 

    Cornet i Calveras, Albert (Date of defense: 1987-05-18)

    En la pasada década, se han observado nuevas bandas de luminescencia en los semiconductores cuando son excitados fuertemente por medio de láseres (fotoexcitacion). La interpretación del origen de estas bandas era variado ...

    Evolución dinámica de sistemas de muchos cuerpos: propiedades estocásticas y ergódicas 

    Masoliver, Jaume, 1951- (Date of defense: 1983-01-21)

    En esta Tesis se llega a resultados originales relacionados con las propiedades dinámicas de las sistemas de muchos cuerpos o grados de libertad. En particular se estudian propiedades estocásticas y ergódicas de modelos ...

    Evolution and ecology of the digital world: A complex systems perspective 

    Kleineberg, Kaj Kolja (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)

    Online social networks (OSNs) enable researchers to study the social universe at a previously unattainable scale. The worldwide impact and the necessity to sustain their rapid growth emphasize the importance to unravel the ...

    An experimental and theoretical view of autocatalytic colloids interacting with interfases 

    Palacios Ruiz, Lucas Santiago (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)

    This thesis contains my doctoral research in condensed soft matter physics prepared at the University of Barcelona. It covers the interaction of active Janus particles with liquid-liquid and liquid-solid interfaces, both ...

    Experiments and models for human decision-making: social dilemmas, pedestrian movement and financial markets 

    Gutiérrez-Roig, Mario (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)

    The revolution of ICT technologies in Digital Era combined with progress of ComplexitySciences have lead to the emergence of Computational Social Science, whose purposeis to analyze society in a quantitative way. ...

    Fire Detectors Based on Chemical Sensor Arrays and Machine Learning Algorithms: Calibration and Test 

    Solorzano Soria, Ana Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-05)

    In some types of fire, namely, smoldering fires or involving polymers without flame, gases and volatiles appear before smoke is released. Most of the fatalities registered for fires, are caused due to the intoxication of ...

    Formulation and screening of drug nanocarriers using microfluidic technology 

    Glinkowska Mares, Adrianna (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)

    Two decades ago, microfluidic technology begun to make its appearance in the fields of drug delivery and biomedical engineering to irrevocably revolutionize them. It was quickly realized how microchannels can aid formulation ...

    From Dynamics to Structure of Complex Networks: Exploiting Heterogeneity in the Sakaguchi-Kuramoto Model 

    Rosell Tarragó, Gemma (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)

    Most of the real-world complex systems are best described as complex networks and can be mathematically described as oscillatory systems, coupled with the neighbours through the connections of the network. The flashing of ...

    Funció de transmissió óptica policromàtica i criteris de qualitat vàlids per a instruments fotogràfics comercials 

    Bosch i Puig, Salvador (Date of defense: 1984-06-27)

    En aquesta tesi s’ha desenvolupat un mètode de mesura de la funció de transmissió òptica policromàtica d’instruments fotogràfics (sistema constituït per la lent formadora de la imatge i la placa de registre fotogràfic). ...