Prebiotic Chemistry Experiments Using Microfluidic Devices [PDF]
Life, 2022 Microfluidic devices are small tools mostly consisting of one or more channels, with dimensions between one and hundreds of microns, where small volumes of fluids are manipulated. They have extensive use in the biomedical and chemical fields; however, in
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Prebiotic Chemistry: The Role of Trimetaphosphate in Prebiotic Chemical Evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 Life’s origins have always been a scientific puzzle. Understanding the production of biomolecules is crucial for understanding the evolution of life on Earth.
Dingwei Gan +6 more
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Polyesters as a Model System for Building Primitive Biologies from Non-Biological Prebiotic Chemistry [PDF]
Life, 2020 A variety of organic chemicals were likely available on prebiotic Earth. These derived from diverse processes including atmospheric and geochemical synthesis and extraterrestrial input, and were delivered to environments including oceans, lakes, and ...
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Komatiites as Complex Adsorption Surfaces for Amino Acids in Prebiotic Environments, a Prebiotic Chemistry Essay [PDF]
Life, 2022 Komatiites represent the oldest known terrestrial rocks, and their composition has been cataloged as the closest to that of the first terrestrial crust after the cooling of the magma ocean.
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Prebiotic chemistry and human intervention [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Experimentalists in the field of prebiotic chemistry strive to re-enact what may have happened when life arose from inanimate material. How often human intervention was needed to obtain a specific result in their studies is worth reporting.
Clemens Richert
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Heat flows solubilize apatite to boost phosphate availability for prebiotic chemistry [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsPhosphorus is an essential building block of life, likely since its beginning. Despite this importance for prebiotic chemistry, phosphorus was scarce in Earth’s rock record and mainly bound in poorly soluble minerals, with the calcium-phosphate mineral ...
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The Future of Prebiotic Chemistry [PDF]
ACS Central Science, 2016 Two recent papers reporting advances in our understanding of how a protometabolism may have developed in a prebiotic world add new meaning to the theme “First Reactions” and highlight the challenges facing synthetic organic chemists attempting to retrodict the origins of life.
Alexander J. Wagner, Donna G. Blackmond
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Potential Role of Inorganic Confined Environments in Prebiotic Phosphorylation [PDF]
Life, 2018 A concise outlook on the potential role of confinement in phosphorylation and phosphate condensation pertaining to prebiotic chemistry is presented. Inorganic confinement is a relatively uncharted domain in studies concerning prebiotic chemistry, and ...
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Beyond prebiotic chemistry [PDF]
Science, 2016 Summary: How can matter transition from the nonliving to the living state? The answer is essential for understanding the origin of life on Earth and for identifying promising targets in the search for life on other planets.
Cronin, Leroy, Walker, Sara Imari
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A Physicochemical Consideration of Prebiotic Microenvironments for Self-Assembly and Prebiotic Chemistry [PDF]
Life, 2022 The origin of life on Earth required myriads of chemical and physical processes. These include the formation of the planet and its geological structures, the formation of the first primitive chemicals, reaction, and assembly of these primitive chemicals ...
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