Facultat de Física: Envíos recientes
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Developing a 3D full-thickness skin model based on thiol-norbornene chemistry
[eng] Collagen-based gels are widely used as the standard for in vitro skin tissue models due to their biocompatibility and structural similarity to natural skin. However, they have notable drawbacks, such as batch-to-batch ...
Synthesis of value-added Nitrogen-based products through advanced electrocatalytic systems
[eng] The transition towards a sustainable and carbon-neutral economy is crucial due to the escalating concerns over excessive greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, and the need for effective utilization of renewable ...
Design, Development, and Validation of Medical Wearable Devices: Challenges and Solutions for Technology Integration, Industrialization and Certification
[eng] Due to the advances in the field of medical care, worldwide life span has increased over the past decades. This rise in longevity comes hand in hand with an increase in health expenditure as aging-associated diseases ...
GHz Magnetization Dynamics in X-ray PhotoEmission Electron Microscopy (XPEEM)
[eng] This thesis presents the recent results achieved during my Ph.D. This is a research project in the field of condensed matter physics, under the supervision of Dr. Michael Foerster of the ALBA Synchrotron and Dr. ...
Development of advanced nuclear magnetic resonance methods for biochemical analysis of biofluids and hyperpolarized magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging for organ-on-chip
[eng] The main challenge in modern medicine is to prevent diseases and, when disease strikes, to detect it and cure it efficiently, promptly and cost-effectively (understanding cost as economic burden, patient and relatives ...
On the use of multilayer hexagonal boron nitride as dielectric in micro/nano-electronic devices
[eng] Electronic devices are becoming increasingly essential for our work and life. The downscaling process of electronic devices, as well as the development of new devices for artificial intelligence and internet of ...
Design of SiPM Front-End Readout Integrated Circuits for Large Area Single-Photon Imagers
[eng] The demand for particle detectors with superior timing performance and precise energy measurement has significantly increased in recent years. Applications requiring extensive detection areas, such as Time-of-Flight ...
Brane-Worlds and Higher Derivative Gravities
[eng] This thesis explores and combines, through the lens of the holographic correspondence, two relevant topics in the field of gravitational high-energy theory: higher-derivative theories of gravity and brane-world ...
Exploring Three-State Opinion Dynamics: A Journey Through Single and Multilayer Network Topologies
[eng] The word "emergence" refers to the formation of collective behaviors, actions not undertaken by the components of a system when isolated. On one hand, we have the components—particles or agents, ranging from water ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
