This doctoral programme comes from the official doctoral programme in Chemistry of the University of Valencia, which has been awarded with the Excellence Awards, with an overall average of 93 out of 100 (Order EDU/3429/2010, of 28 December and Resolution of 6 October 2011), and from the Doctoral Studies in Materials and Sensor Systems for Industrial Applications of the Universitat Politècnica de València. An evidence of the academic relevance of the proposed programme is the number of doctoral theses carried out and defended in the participant departments (Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Physics, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry from the University of Valencia; and the Department of Chemistry and the Institute of Chemical Technology [ITQ] from the Universitat Politècnica de València) which are around a hundred from January 2007 to December 2011, and of which approximately 50% correspond to the European certification for doctoral degrees.