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Alkaline vents recreated in two dimensions to study pH gradients, precipitation morphology and molecule accumulation
Maximilian Weingart, Siyu Chen, Clara Donat +4
Alkaline vents (AV) are hypothesized to have been a setting for the emergence of life, by creating strong gradients across inorganic membranes within chimney structures. In the pas…
Presence of liquid water during the evolution of exomoons orbiting ejected free-floating planets
Giulia Roccetti, Tommaso Grassi, Barbara Ercolano +4
Free-floating planets (FFPs) can result from dynamical scattering processes happening in the first few million years of a planetary system's life. Several models predict the possib…
White and green rust chimneys accumulate RNA in a ferruginous chemical garden
Vanessa Helmbrecht, Maximilian Weingart, Frieder Klein +2
Mechanisms of nucleic acid accumulation were likely critical to the emergence of life in the ferruginous oceans of the early Earth. How exactly prebiotic geological settings accumu…
Selection of prebiotic oligonucleotides by cyclic phase separation
Giacomo Bartolucci, Adriana Calaça Serrão, Philipp Schwintek +7
The emergence of functional oligonucleotides on early Earth required a molecular selection mechanism to screen for specific sequences with prebiotic functions. Cyclic processes suc…
Emergence of information transmission in a prebiotic RNA reactor
B. Obermayer, H. Krammer, D. Braun +1
A poorly understood step in the transition from a chemical to a biological world is the emergence of self-replicating molecular systems. We study how a precursor for such a replica…