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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Spontaneous formation of autocatalytic sets with self-replicating inorganic metal oxide clusters.

Haralampos N Miras, Cole Mathis, Weimin Xuan, De-Liang Long, Robert Pow, Leroy Cronin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. In Situ Observation of Polyoxometalate Formation by Vibrational Spectroscopy.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  3. Bifurcations and phase transitions in the origins of life.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  5. Compression of Molybdenum Blue Polyoxometalate Cluster Rings.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  6. Assessment of Stoichiometric Autocatalysis across Element Groups.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023
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  13. Universal motifs and the diversity of autocatalytic systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  15. Autocatalytic chemical networks at the origin of metabolism.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Haralampos N MirasSchool of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Glasgow, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0086-5173
Cole MathisSchool of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Glasgow, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8424-9169
Weimin XuanSchool of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Glasgow, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0288-1633
De-Liang LongSchool of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Glasgow, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3241-2379
Robert PowSchool of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Glasgow, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9886-463X
Leroy CroninSchool of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Glasgow, United Kingdom Lee.Cronin@glasgow.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-8035-5757
University of Glasgow · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Here we show how a simple inorganic salt can spontaneously form autocatalytic sets of replicating inorganic molecules that work via molecular recognition based on the {PMo

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autocatalysisautocatalytic setsmolecular replicationorigin of lifeself-assembly

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PMID32371490
PMCPMC7245103
OpenAlexW3021759475

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