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ReviewSpace science reviews2025

Multiscale Perspectives on Solid-Phase Astrochemistry: Laboratory, Computation, and Open Questions.

Matthew D Dickers, Duncan V Mifsud, Nigel J Mason, Felipe Fantuzzi

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Review in Space science reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Matthew D DickersPhysics and Astronomy, School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NH UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9615-9101
Duncan V MifsudHUN-REN Institute for Nuclear Research (ATOMKI), Debrecen, H-4026 Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-0379-354X
Nigel J MasonPhysics and Astronomy, School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NH UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4468-8324
Felipe FantuzziHUN-REN Institute for Nuclear Research (ATOMKI), Debrecen, H-4026 Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-8200-8262

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review provides an outline of the key processes behind the formation of dust grains in the interstellar medium, the growth of thin ice mantles upon their surface, and their impact on the chemistry that can take place at the centre of cold molecular clouds. These dust grains provide a vital surface to catalyse complex chemistry, without which many of the complex molecules now observed in the interstellar medium could not form. We highlight the experimental methodology by which ice analogues may be grown and analysed in a laboratory setting, as well as their shortcomings; in particular, the limitations on experimental deposition timescales that present a particular problem when compared to the accretion rates in the interstellar medium. Potential solutions to these constraints are underscored through computational simulations, with particular emphasis on the impact that newly emerging multiscale methods may have on future models of ice mantle formation.

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AstrochemistryComputational simulationsIce filmsLaboratory methodsMultiscale modelling

Identifiers

PMID41210207
PMCPMC12589280

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