On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life

Despite more than one hundred years of work on organosilicon chemistry, the basis for the plausibility of silicon-based life has never been systematically addressed nor objectively reviewed. We provide a comprehensive assessment of the possibility of silicon-based biochemistry, based on a review of...

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Main Authors: Janusz Jurand Petkowski, William Bains, Sara Seager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-06-01
Series:Life
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/6/84