William F. Martin

Role of geochemical protoenzymes (geozymes) in primordial metabolism: specific abiotic hydride transfer by metals to the biological redox cofactor NAD+

K. Kleinermanns, H. Tüysüz, M. Preiner, 2021, The FEBS journal.

Ambient temperature CO2 fixation to pyruvate and subsequently to citramalate over iron and nickel nanoparticles

C. Farés, H. Tüysüz, M. Preiner, 2023, Nature Communications.

Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)

Joana C. Xavier, Filipa L. Sousa, Jessica L E Wimmer, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology.

Ambient temperature CO2 fixation to pyruvate and subsequently to citramalate over iron and nickel nanoparticles

C. Farés, H. Tüysüz, M. Preiner, 2023, Nature Communications.

Influence of Composition of Nickel-Iron Nanoparticles for Abiotic CO2 Conversion to Early Prebiotic Organics.

C. Ochoa-Hernández, H. Tüysüz, Tugce Beyazay, 2023, Angewandte Chemie.

Direct Synthesis of Formamide from CO2 and H2O with Nickel–Iron Nitride Heterostructures under Mild Hydrothermal Conditions

H. Tüysüz, William F. Martin, Tuğçe Beyazay, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Serpentinization as the source of energy, electrons, organics, catalysts, nutrients and pH gradients for the origin of LUCA and life

Natalia Mrnjavac, M. Preiner, L. Schwander, 2023, Frontiers in microbiology.

Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation

Natalia Mrnjavac, M. Preiner, J. Sucharitakul, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Prebiotic Hydrothermal Reactions Influence of Composition of Nickel-Iron Nanoparticles for Abiotic CO 2 Conversion to Early Prebiotic Organics

Mulheim A. D. Ruhr, William F. Martin, K. Belthle, 2022 .

A prebiotic Krebs cycle analog generates amino acids with H2 and NH3 over nickel

J. Moran, William F. Martin, Wahnyalo Kazöne, 2024, Chem.