Uncovering the role of free volume in biomaterials and biological matter

  1. Axpe Iza, Eneko
Zuzendaria:
  1. José Ángel García Martínez Zuzendaria
  2. Fernando Plazaola Muguruza Zuzendaria

Defentsa unibertsitatea: Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Fecha de defensa: 2015(e)ko urria-(a)k 23

Epaimahaia:
  1. Cristina Gómez Polo Presidentea
  2. María Luisa Fernández Gubieda Idazkaria
  3. Rafael Omar Ferragut Kidea
Saila:
  1. Fisika

Mota: Tesia

Teseo: 120396 DIALNET lock_openADDI editor

Laburpena

Uncovering the role of free volume in biomaterials and biological matterDoctoral Thesis by Eneko AxpeSupervised by Fernando Plazaola and Jose Angel Garc¿aIn order to understand the role that free volume holes play in several properties of biomaterials (as shape memory polymers for medical applications or scaffolds for tissue engineering) and biological matter (as lipid membranes or living cancer cells), a novel positron annihilation lifetime spectrometer has been designed and fabricated. It has been successfully measured then the free volume hole size and distribution in these materials. This work has been mainly carried out at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and in part in two research stays in the University of Oxford in 2014 and 15.