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Abiogenesis on Different Star Types; a Dissipative Photochemical Perspective
Andrés Ledesma, Karo Michaelian
From the non-equilibrium thermodynamic perspective of the origin of life as a photochemical dissipative structuring (entropy driven) process, we assess the probability of carbon-ba…
A Dissipative Photochemical Origin of Life: The UVC Abiogenisis of Adenine
Karo Michaelian
I describe the non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the photochemical mechanisms which may have been involved in the dissipative structuring, proliferation and evolution of the funda…
Prebiotic Fatty Acid Vesicles through Photochemical Dissipative Structuring
Karo Michaelian, Oscar Rodríguez
We describe the photochemical dissipative structuring of fatty acids from CO and CO2 saturated water under the solar UVC and UVA photon potential prevalent at Earth's surface durin…
Origin of Information Encoding in Nucleic Acids through a Dissipation-Replication Relation
Julián Mejía, Karo Michaelian
Ultraviolet light incident on organic material can initiate its spontaneous dissipative structuring into chromophores which can then catalyze their own replication. This may have b…
Properties of cyanobacterial UV-absorbing pigments suggest their evolution was driven by optimizing photon dissipation rather than photoprotection
Aleksandar Simeonov, Karo Michaelian
An ancient repertoire of UV absorbing pigments which survive today in the phylogenetically oldest extant photosynthetic organisms the cyanobacteria point to a direction in evolutio…
Thermodynamic Explanation for the Cosmic Ubiquity of Organic Pigments
Karo Michaelian, Aleksandar Simeonov
There is increasingly more evidence being accumulated for the occurrence of large amounts of organic material in the cosmos, particularly in the form of aromatic compounds. These m…