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ArticleOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life1999

Scanning tunnelling microscopy and molecular modelling of xanthine monolayers self-assembled at the solid-liquid interface: relevance to the origin of life.

S J Sowerby, G B Petersen

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Article in Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Differential adsorption of nucleic acid bases: Relevance to the origin of life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2001
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

S J SowerbyDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
G B Petersen
University of Otago · NZ

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) has allowed examination of inorganic crystalline surfaces and their interactions with organic adsorbates with unparalleled resolution. As a novel technique in origin of life studies, the application of STM is detailed with particular attention paid to the methods employed in the analysis of organic monolayer structures. STM imaging and molecular modelling of self-assembled monolayers of the purine base, xanthine, formed on the surfaces of graphite and molybdenum disulfide are presented as an example. The putative role of such structures in the origin of life is discussed.

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Origin of LifeHydrogen BondingMicroscopy, Electron, Scanning TransmissionModels, ChemicalModels, MolecularMolecular ConformationXanthineXanthine

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PMID10666743
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