León Albiter, Noel (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
Polymers have a wide range of applications. Their ability to be shaped into multiple forms makes it possible to obtain polymer films, which are highly used in industries such as food and pharmaceuticals. ...
Castellanos Arboleda, Maria Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-05-05)
Cobalt-chromium (CoCr) alloys are widely used as biomaterials for coronary stents due to their excellent mechanical properties, biocompatibility and corrosion resistance. However, these materials are ...
Pérez Antoñanzas, Román (Date of defense: 2011-07-22)
When bone regeneration is needed, natural bone grafts are widely used. They are the best option since they present the same composition to that of bone, contain living cells with osteogenic potential, ...
Fraioli, Roberta (Date of defense: 2016-11-14)
Despite being biocompatible and with adequate mechanical properties for application as a bone replacement material, titanium lacks osteoinductive capacity, i.e. it supports new bone growth on its surface ...
Mestres Bea, Gemma (Date of defense: 2012-07-09)
This Thesis aims at the development of two novel families of inorganic phosphate cements with suitable characteristics for clinical applications in hard tissue regeneration or replacement. It is organized ...
Chen, Yu-Hsiang (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)
Hard coating 's thermal stability is essential due to the high temperature environment of high-speed cutting applications, while the induced phase and microstructure evolution affects the mechanical ...
Zheng, Yafeng (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
Cemented carbides, also referred to as hardmetals, are composite materials consisting of brittle refractory carbide phase (generally WC) embedded in a metallic matrix. Such microstructure leads to an ...
Cailloux, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)
The purpose of this PhD thesis was to investigate the sensitivity of the rheological, thermal, mechanical and fracture behaviours on the topological changes induced in two commercial PLA grades. PLA ...
Yang, Jing, 1988- (Date of defense: 2016-05-31)
This thesis assesses the influence of substrate surface integrity on different mechanical (flexural strength and contact damage resistance under spherical indentation) and tribological (scratch resistance ...
Vilà Ramírez, Narciso (Date of defense: 2014-02-28)
This PhD thesis investigated the incorporation of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS) in thermoplastic base materials via melt-blending procedures. Particularly, a focus is taken on the ...
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (38)
66 - Chemical technology. Chemical and related industries (19)
616.7 - Pathology of the organs of locomotion. Skeletal and locomotor systems (6)
617 - Surgery. Orthopaedics. Ophthalmology (4)