Lipid Aggregates Inducing Symmetry Breaking in Prebiotic Polymerisations |
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Authors: | Stefano Piotto |
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Affiliation: | Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Hoenggerberg, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland. piotto@inorg.chem.ethz.ch |
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Abstract: | It is a long-standing and still open problem to determine the origin of biomolecular homochirality, and many scenarios have been suggested. Amphiphilic molecules are renowned for their capability to reorganize themselves in a variety of different morphologies and topologies, and for their capability to partition chemicals in well defined domains. Here a possible role for amphiphilic molecules inducing symmetry breaking is suggested in the framework of the research on origin of life. |
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