Orion Farr (MIT) "Blood from Stone: Electron-Shuttling Green Rust as the Bridge Between Geochemical and Biochemical Metabolism"
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Life’s first breaths may have begun not inside cells, but on minerals. My research focuses on Green Rust, a metastable Fe2+/3+-oxyhydroxide, and how its variable charge, exchangeable interlayer species, and semiconducting behavior reveal mechanistic and...