Facultat de Física: Recent submissions
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Rheological Characterization of Healthy and non-Healthy Blood using Electronic Detection of the Fluid Front
[eng] In this research, we developed a technique and experimental setup that is the basis of a device, for the characterization of blood rheology and its connection to the rigidity of red blood cell (RBC). Our experimental ...
Structural Engineering of Advanced Cathode Materials for Aqueous Zinc-ion Batteries
[eng] Aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs) have garnered significant research attention due to their remarkably high-volume energy density, reaching up to 5,851 mAh mL-1. This surpasses the capabilities of state-of-the-art ...
Quantum Algorithms: bridging the gap between theory and experiment
[eng] As more sophisticated quantum devices are being developed, the scope of what can successfully be executed on them grows. In this period, an essential piece of this process is the hand-in-hand collaboration between ...
Development of Computational Workflows for Volatile Metabolomics applied to Life Sciences
[eng] The field of medicine and life sciences faces a significant challenge due to the overwhelming influx of information and a rapidly increasing volume of data. Addressing this data abundance necessitates the integration ...
Driven soft matter at the nanoscale
[eng] This thesis will present a body of articles on the research topic of soft matter. Soft matter is a research subfield of condensed matter, where the energy required for deforming the media is comparable to that of ...
Anisotropic interactions and self-bound solutions in Bose-Einstein condensates
[eng] Bose-Einstein condensation is a direct consequence of quantum statistical effects. It occurs in ultradilute gases at very low temperatures: most atoms condense into the lowest-energy state and behave as a single ...
Born to be bound: Intermolecular interactions and thermodynamics in RNA folding
[eng] This thesis focuses on RNA, one of the most versatile molecules in biological systems, and how intermolecular interactions with ions and proteins govern RNA folding. On its way to biological function, RNA transits a ...
Combinatorial and Machine Learning Techniques for Complex Thin Film Photovoltaics: Accelerated Research and Process Monitoring Methodologies
[eng] Materials and thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) devices exhibit a high level of complexity, characterized by their multi scale, multi layer, and multi element structures, along with complex manufacturing processes. ...
Synthesis and Characterization of UV-Selective Oxide-based Transparent Thin Film Solar Cells
[eng] The work presented in this thesis book has been carried out during the period 2019-2022 within the Solar Energy Materials and Systems (SEMS) group at the Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC) located in ...
Dynamics of nanoparticles in 3D tumor models
[eng] In the last decades, great research effort was focused towards designing nanocarriers for cancer therapy. However, nanoparticle translation from basic research to the clininc has proven to be a challenging task, with ...
Reacciones nucleares elásticas analizadas con la fuerza de Gogny
[spa] El Modelo Óptico es una de las herramientas más esenciales para analizar experimentos de dispersión nuclear. Se basa en la hipótesis simplificada de que la interacción nucleón-nucleón individual entre el proyectil y ...
Improving the Reliability of Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy
[eng] Owing to its exceptional topographical resolution and electrical sensitivity, Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy (C AFM) has become an essential tool for nanoscale material analysis. However, achieving reproducible ...
Development of microfluidic devices for cancer cell isolation
[eng] The emergence of liquid biopsies has been useful for the diagnosis of physiological conditions, inflammatory processes, and especially represents a good alternative tool for non-invasive analysis of tumor-derived ...
Development of opto-mechanical sensors based on silicon nanopillars for biological applications
[eng] The scope of this thesis is the advancement on the theoretical simulation and nanofabrication of photonic crystals based on a periodic array of silicon pillars. This research is intended to be part of the preliminary ...
Coherent Flux Qubits for Quantum Annealing
[eng] Quantum annealing is a heuristic analog quantum algorithm that promises potential quantum speedup over classical algorithms for a huge variety of optimization problems. Current existing annealers, despite their ...
Dynamical and Mechanical Characterisation of Bi- and Tri-dimensional Neuronal Cultures: from Health to Disease
[eng] In this PhD thesis, we leverage the well established foundations of complex systems physics and integrate insights from medicine and materials engineering to advance our understanding of neuroscience. Our primary ...
Decadal climate prediction and predictability for climate services
[eng] Climate variations at annual to decadal time scales affect many regions around the globe, causing direct impacts on the economy, ecosystems and society. Knowing these variations in advance allows for implementing ...
Active turbulence and active shell models for microswimmer suspensions
[eng] This doctoral thesis deals with the study of the collective behavior of active particles using computacional simulations of semi-dilute solutions of microswimmers. Results are obtained for the polar order parameter, ...
3D in vitro models for neural progenitor cell differentiation and network formation
[eng] Conventional 2D in vitro and animal models have been found inadequate to fully uncover the intricate mechanisms happening in the brain and its diseases. Engineering-based models emerge as promising alternatives to ...
Domain walls, primordial black holes and inflation
[eng] This thesis investigates primordial black holes and their observational consequences. In the first part, we examine the behavior of domain walls produced during inflation, and their subsequent collapse, leading to ...
