ArticleHeliyon2017
Microscopic dissipative structuring and proliferation at the origin of life.
Article in Heliyon, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Molecular Dissipative Structuring: The Fundamental Creative Force in Biology.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Cosmic Silicate Surfaces Catalizing Prebiotic Reactions: Atomistic Modeling on the Polymerization of HCN.ACS earth & space chemistry · 2025Article
- The Pigment World: Life's Origins as Photon-Dissipating Pigments.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Natural Selection: From Molecules to the Biosphere.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Dissipation + Utilization = Self-Organization.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Dissipative Photochemical Abiogenesis of the Purines.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Undefining life's biochemistry: implications for abiogenesis.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Review
- A Photon Force and Flow for Dissipative Structuring: Application to Pigments, Plants and Ecosystems.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Statistical Physics of Evolving Systems.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Molecules, Information and the Origin of Life: What Is Next?Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Dissipative Photochemical Origin of Life: UVC Abiogenesis of Adenine.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Spatial Information in the Emergence of Life.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Photon Dissipation as the Origin of Information Encoding in RNA and DNA.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- From sunscreens to medicines: Can a dissipation hypothesis explain the beneficial aspects of many plant compounds?Phytotherapy research : PTR · 2020Review
- Thermodynamics in Ecology-An Introductory Review.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- UVC photon-induced denaturing of DNA: A possible dissipative route to Archean enzyme-less replication.Heliyon · 2019Article
- Homochirality through Photon-Induced Denaturing of RNA/DNA at the Origin of Life.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Some fundamental molecules of life are suggested to have been formed, proliferated, and evolved through photochemical microscopic dissipative structuring and autocatalytic proliferation under the UV-C/UV-B solar environment prevalent at Earth's surface throughout the Archean. Evidence is given in the numerous salient characteristics of these, including their strong absorption in this spectral region and their rapid non-radiative excited state decay through inherent conical intersections. The examples of the dissipative structuring and dissipative proliferation of the purines and of single strand DNA are given. UV-C and UV-B-induced stationary state isomerizations and tautomerizations are shown to be crucial to the formation of the purines from hydrogen cyanide in an aqueous environment under UV-C light, while UV-C induced phosphorylation of nucleosides and denaturing of double helix RNA and DNA are similarly important to the production and proliferation of single strand DNA. This thermodynamic dissipation perspective provides a physical-chemical foundation for understanding the origin and evolution of life.
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