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Janusz Pętkowski, PhD

ASTROBIOLOGY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

10 June 2020

On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life

31 January 2020

Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres

16 July 2019

Trivalent Phosphorus and Phosphines as Components of Biochemistry in Anoxic Environments

27 March 2019

An Apparent Binary Choice in Biochemistry: Mutual Reactivity Implies Life Chooses Thiols or Nitrogen-Sulfur Bonds, but Not Both

25 March 2019

New environmental model for thermodynamic ecology of biological phosphine production

28 February 2019

Natural Products Containing ‘Rare’ Organophosphorus Functional Groups

24 January 2018

Natural Products Containing a Nitrogen–Sulfur Bond

6 June 2016

Toward a List of Molecules as Potential Biosignature Gases for the Search for Life on Exoplanets and Applications to Terrestrial Biochemistry

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14 September 2020

Phosphine on Venus Cannot be Explained by Conventional Processes

14 September 2020

Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus

13 August 2020

The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere

This publication made the cover of Astrobiology

Image credit: Joanna Petkowska, PhD (joannapetkowska.com)

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