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微尺度热液孔隙环境中的热目标吸附和富集

Thermally-Targeted Adsorption And Enrichment In Micro-scale Hydrothermal Pore Environments

Aashish Priye, Victor Ugaz

摘要:

微尺度约束下的混沌平流的独特能力,直接沿加速动力学途径的化学过程早已被认识到。但实际应用一直缓慢出现,因为最佳的结果往往是反直觉地实现的流动,似乎具有不希望的高度混乱。在这里,我们展示了如何在这些微环境中的热致混沌现象能够建立一个连续的输送机运输化合物从散装固体边界上的目标位置,在那里他们变得非常丰富。这些发现有趣地表明,微尺度混沌平流可能提供了一个新的机制来解释出现的生物分子复杂性从稀释的有机前体在生命起源的一个关键的未回答的问题,在益生菌环境。我们进一步展示了如何合理地设计和利用这些流来执行大量的生化过程,具有以前认为无法实现的鲁棒性水平。

英文摘要:

The unique ability of chaotic advection under micro-scale confinement to direct chemical processes along accelerated kinetic pathways has long been recognized. But practical applications have been slow to emerge because optimal results are often counter-intuitively achieved in flows that appear to possess undesirably high disorder. Here we demonstrate how thermally actuated chaotic phenomena within these microenvironments are capable of establishing a continuous conveyor transporting chemical compounds from the bulk to targeted locations on solid boundaries where they become greatly enriched. These findings intriguingly suggest that microscale chaotic advection may offer a new- mechanism to explain emergence of biomolecular complexity from dilute organic precursors in the prebiotic milieu-a key unanswered question in the origin of life. We further show how these flows can be rationally designed and harnessed to execute bulk biochemical processes with a level of robustness previously thought unattainable.

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