Water Interaction with Fe₂NiP Schreibersite (110) Surface: a Quantum Mechanical Atomistic Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Phosphorus is an element of primary importance for all living creatures, being present in many biological activities in the form of phosphate (PO₄ ^3-). However, there are still open questions about the origin of this specific element and on the transformation that allowed it to be incorporated in biological systems. The most probable source of prebiotic phosphorus is the intense meteoritic bombardment during the Archean era, a few million years after the solar system formation, which brought tons of iron-phosphide materials (schreibersite) on the early Earth crust. It was recently demonstrated that by simple wetting/corrosion processes from this material, various oxygenated phosphorus compounds are produced. In the present work, the wetting process of schreibersite (F

SUBMITTER: Pantaleone S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8819687 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature