Self-assembled layers of nucleic acid bases and nucleosides at the interfaces and the origin of life.

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Authors	VETTERL Vladimír IGNÁC Jan
Year of publication	2005
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	European Biophysics Journal
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Biophysics
Keywords	self-assembled layers; two-dimensional condensation; nucleic acid components; origin of life
Description	Nucleic acid bases and nucleosides posses an extraordinary high ability of self-association at the electrode surface and can form there by two-dimensional condensation a self-assembled monolayer SAM, a compact film. This property was probably significant for the origin of life at earth.
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