Abiotic formation of acylglycerols under simulated hydrothermal conditions and self-assembly properties of such lipid products

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1649-1656

  Simoneit, Bernd R T ^a   Rushdi, Ahmed I ^a   Deamer, David W ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic formation; Acylglycerols; Hydrothermal conditions; Lipids; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; FATTY ACIDS; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; GLYCEROL; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; MICELLES; PYROLYSIS;

ABIOTIC FORMATION; ACYLGLYCEROLS; CARBONACEOUS METEORITES; SELF-ASSEMBLY;

LIPID BILAYERS;

EID: 35548948124     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.034     Document Type: Article

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