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Prest, E.I.E.D. (author)Challenges to achieve biological stability in drinking water distribution systems Drinking water is distributed from the treatment facility to consumers through extended man-made piping systems. The World Health Organization drinking water guidelines (2006) stated that “Water entering the distribution system must be microbiologically safe and...doctoral thesis 2015
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Fredon, R. (author)Mankind has started taking the global warming problem into consideration, and has been doing so for decades. The relevance of the problem is slowly reaching everyone’s mind, which has resulted in fast growth in important related research topics, among which energy materials. One of the most important challenges has to do both with transportation...doctoral thesis 2015
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Zhang, X. (author)Chemical energy storage in Li-ion batteries is a key technology for the future renewable society. Their energy and power density is largely determined by electrode materials that are able to host lithium in their crystal structure. Aiming at faster and more efficient energy storage, one of the key objectives in Li-ion batteries is to improve the...doctoral thesis 2015
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Ullien, D. (author)This thesis covers work done on silicon nanowire field effect transistors and optical microring resonators. An effort was put to develop point-of-care devices based on this platforms to facilitate rapid and reliable diagnosis of influenza A.doctoral thesis 2015
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Staginus, J. (author)There is a high motivation to develop smart sensor systems based on surface-engineered sensor elements for environmental and biomedical monitoring purposes. Key characteristics are that the sensors perform reliable, accurate, sensitive, and ideally selective measurements while being low-cost, portable, robust for online and on-field applications...doctoral thesis 2015
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Valdesueiro, D. (author)Particles are widely used in the chemical industry as raw material and end product. In many applications of particles, it is advantageous to give them a coating that can either protect the particle from outside influences or give it an additional function. Technologies to provide micron-sized particles with relatively thick coatings (in the...doctoral thesis 2015
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Kozak, B.U. (author)Metabolic engineering – the improvement and addition, by genetic modification, of industrially relevant properties of microorganisms with respect to catalysis, transport and regulatory functions – is a well-established method for development of more cost-effective and ‘green’ industrial processes. Rapid depletion of oil reserves and a growing...doctoral thesis 2015
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Wu, F. (author)One of the most basic features that pervade biology is the existence of boundaries that separate living cells from their outer environments. Molecules responsible for the internal organization of a living cell must adapt to its boundaries, as the cell grows, divides, and changes in shape and size. In this thesis, we aim to understand how...doctoral thesis 2015
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Aerts, M. (author)Thesis about the charge carrier dynamics in PbSe and PbS semiconductor nanocrystals. The main goal of the research is to assess their potential as new materials for high-efficiency solar cells. The nanocrystals under investigation consist of PbSe quantum dots (Ch 2), PbSe nanorods (Ch 3 & 4) and PbS nanosheets (Ch 6), and the spectroscopic...doctoral thesis 2015
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Ter Weele, D.N. (author)A study of fast scintillating materials to be applied in future generations positron emission tomography (PET) scanners. The aspects that govern the timing resolution achievable with scintillating crystals were evaluated. This was studied experimentially, using very advanced high speed facilities like a 100 ps resolution pulsed X-ray generator,...doctoral thesis 2015
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Yalcin, A.O. (author)Synthesis of nanocrystals (NCs) and heteronanocrystals (HNCs) has developed very fast particularly in the last decade. Nowadays, various structures and different morphologies of NCs and HNCs can be prepared with a very narrow size distribution. The nanoscale dimensions of these crystals lead to interesting phenomena (e.g. electronic properties)...doctoral thesis 2015
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Kozlova, T. (author)Electromigration is a process in which a metallic contact line is thinned by passing a current through it; which occurs due to a gradual displacement of atoms, ultimately leading to destruction of the wire. Despite the active investigations on electromigration for over fifty years, until now there is no general theory of the process and many...doctoral thesis 2015
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Yang, J. (author)The white matter of the brain contains all the connections between different parts of the grey matter. Many diseases especially affect the brain’s white matter. For instance, the white matter tracts are destroyed in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Accordingly, there is a large interest in features of the white matter to...doctoral thesis 2015
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Chen, B. (author)?-Hydroxy carbonyl compounds are an important class of compounds often found as a common structural motif in natural products. Although the molecules themselves look rather simple, their synthesis can be challenging. Water addition to conjugated C = C bonds opens up a straightforward route for the preparation of ?-hydroxy carbonyl compounds....doctoral thesis 2015
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Kumar, N. (author)Terahertz radiation is electromagnetic waves with frequencies from 0.1-10 THz. THz radiation can pass through cardboard, paper, plastics, ceramics and many other materials. Hence, it can be used for non-destructive imaging. Another important application of THz radiation is spectroscopy. Many organic molecules absorb light at THz frequencies and...doctoral thesis 2015
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Spinelli, A. (author)This thesis presents an experimental study of magnetic structures, composed of only a few atoms. Those structures are first built atom-by-atom and then locally probed, both with a low-temperature STM. The technique that we use to assemble them is vertical atom manipulation, while to study their physical properties we use inelastic electron...doctoral thesis 2015
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Mendez Sevillano, D. (author)The increasing population demands increasing food supply with the consequent increase in food waste. Moreover, not only the quantity of the demanded food increases but so does the quality. This situation poses an interesting challenge to the food industry that is moving towards the revalorisation of the food waste and, as a part of it, towards...doctoral thesis 2015
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De Jong, M. (author)Photovoltaic devices are a widely available, long lasting means of generating sustainable energy. Unfortunately, the integration of such devices into society is to date still limited. This is in part due to the much less than optimal efficiency of conversion of sunlight to electricity, but also by the physical limitations of integrating...doctoral thesis 2015