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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Petkowski, Janusz Jurand, Bains, William, Seager, Sara
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126814