Zarzuela Fernández, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
The aim of this thesis was to study quantum phenomena and excitation modes in type-I superconductors and magnetic vortices. The intermediate state in type-I superconductors is characterized by the ...
Vallvé Antón, Maria dels Àngels (Date of defense: 2010-06-18)
Els treballs presentats en aquesta tesi fan referència a sistemes amb estructures d’escales nanomètriques. L’estructura d'aquests sistemes s’obté mitjançant la formació de monocapes de Langmuir, dipositant ...
Luque Santolaria, Antoni (Date of defense: 2011-06-08)
Viruses are submicroscopic biological entities that need to infect a host cell in order to replicate. In their simplest form viruses are constituted by an infective genetic material and a protein shell ...
Garolera Huguet, Blai (Date of defense: 2015-02-27)
The holographic duality between gauge theories and string theories has opened a new door to access the strongly coupled regime of quantum field theories and offers, at the same time, a completely ...
Lorenzo Ros, Sara de (Date of defense: 2015-01-23)
In the field of biophysics, the study of the thermodynamic characteristics of biomolecules, such as DNA, RNA or proteins, allows us to understand more about the building blocks of life. The thermodynamic ...
Seelbach, Ryan (Date of defense: 2015-06-12)
Regenerative medicine takes multifaceted approaches towards healing complex injury and restoring normal tissue function by combining biomaterials with cells and drugs. Recently, naturally occurring ...
Bianco, Valentino (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
Water is commonly associated with life. This substance affects the living beings in countless aspects and length scales, ranging from molecular biology to climatology. Water exhibits a long series of ...
Aznar Palenzuela, María (Date of defense: 2013-10-31)
The main goal of this thesis is to study the physical mechanisms implicated in the self-assembly and mechanical properties of non-enveloped viral capsids using coarse-grained models. The thesis has been ...
Huguet Casades, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2011-02-04)
[eng] Molecular biophysics is a scientific discipline that studies biomolecules. This discipline has experienced a revolution thanks to the development of single- molecule techniques. These techniques ...
Haddad, Nidal (Date of defense: 2012-10-27)
However successful classical general relativity is, it faces non-normalizability problems at the quantum mechanical level. Nevertheless, it predicts the existence of black holes, which are thermal objects ...