Marine phytoplankton constitute the base of ocean food webs and are responsible for nearly half of the total annual carbon dioxide uptake on the planet acting as important players in biogeochemical cycles. Nitrogen is an essential nutrient that can limit phytoplankton growth. Eukaryotic phytoplan...
The aim of this Ph.D. thesis is to have a better comprehension of the interactions between coupling, slow slip events (SSEs) and the seismic ruptures in subduction zones. This work focuses on the North Chile - South Peru subduction zone that has been recognized as a mature seismic gap. Thus, the ...
In this work, we study systems with coupling between fermionic states and Majorana bound states (MBS), which are seen as a fractionalization of the first on the Kitaev model. The MBSs have interesting properties such as satisfying non-Abelian statistics, being of interest in quantum computation i...
En este trabajo se estudian sistemas con acoplamiento entre estados fermiónicos y estados ligados de Majorana (ELM), los cuales son vistos como fraccionalización de los primeros en el modelo de Kitaev. Los ELM poseen interesantes propiedades, entre las que destaca el satisfacer estadística no Abe...
Las cuencas de rift son lugares altamente dinámicos, donde se conjugan el
fallamiento activo, el magmatismo, y la sedimentación, representando un contexto
ideal para la preservación del registro geológico. Por otro lado, la reactivación de sus
estructuras ejerce un control sustancial en la constr...
The Southern Andes Volcanic Zone (SVZ) is located in the main Cordillera of the Andean region in southern Chile. The volcanic zone is located between 33°S and 46°S and consists of a variety of magmatic features, in particular sheeted dyke intrusions. Thes
The neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is a peripheral cholinergic synapse formed
between a motor axon, a skeletal muscle fiber, and terminal Schwann cells. The
maturation of the NMJ includes a morphological, structural and functional
refinement of this synapse allowing controlled muscle contraction. H...
La unión neuromuscular (UNM) es una sinapsis periférica colinérgica formada
entre un axón motor, una fibra muscular esquelética y células de Schwann
terminales. La maduración de la UNM comprende un refinamiento morfológico,
estructural y funcional de esta sinapsis permitiendo la contracción muscu...
This thesis addresses the eco-hydrological cycles of forests and the complex relationship between them and social systems, in the context of the dynamics of temperate forests in southern Chile. The text is structured in three chapters: the first and the second seek to understand the changes of a ...
Esta tesis aborda los ciclos eco-hidrológicos de los bosques y la compleja relación con los
sistemas sociales, en el contexto de la dinámica de los bosques templados del sur de Chile. El
texto se estructura en tres capítulos: el primero y el segundo buscan entender los cambios de
un bosque templa...
This thesis describes three experiments in the topics of magnetism and superconductivity.
The first experiment demonstrates the ability to have magnetic control of the triplet component
amplitude in a Nb/Co/Cu/Co/CoO superconducting spin valve. The experiment
is done by measuring the superconduct...
This work is focused in a systematic study of hydrocarbon reactivity in molecules with C-H bonds with different hybridization, in reaction of photocatalytic oxofunctionalization under visible light irradiation and room temperature and pressure. For this purpose, where synthesized and characterize...
Copper enrichment can heavily restrict community development due to soil toxicity. In this situation, reclamation alternatives consider the use of metal-tolerant plants, but co-occurring abiotic soil restrictions, such as drought and salinity, can interfere with phytoremediation efforts under fie...
El enriquecimiento de cobre puede restringir en gran medida el desarrollo de las comunidades debido a la toxicidad del suelo. En esta situación, las alternativas de recuperación consideran el uso de plantas tolerantes a metales, pero las restricciones abióticas del suelo, tales como la sequía y l...
