Nucleation in small volumes and confinement Rodríguez-Ruiz, Isaac Gómez Morales, Jaime García Ruiz, Juan Manuel Universidad de Granada. Programa Oficial de Doctorado en: Química Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra Nucleación Microfluídica Tecnología de fluidos Mecánica de fluidos Confinamiento Biomineralización Cristalización Biomedicina The formation of a crystalline phase from solution is a key subject in a wide range of interdisciplinary fields, from materials and pharmaceutical research to biochemistry, molecular biology or physical chemistry, among many others. In most of those fields, the studies performed in small volumes are motivated by four main intersts: Low (High added value) reagents consumption, emulation of crystallization conditions in natural or biological environments, location of crystallization events in a confined space for their study, and the study and exploitation fo the effects that confinement itself experts in the precipitating material. Along the present thesis, we have explored the application of small volumes for the study of different systems and substances of interest. 2017-05-02T11:15:23Z 2017-05-02T11:15:23Z 2017 2013-01-28 info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis Rodríguez Ruiz, I. Nucleation in small volumes and confinement. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2017. [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/46066] 9788491631859 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/46066 spa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Universidad de Granada