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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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126814 |