{"id":95792,"date":"2019-09-04T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/study-reveals-radical-wrinkle-in-forming-complex-carbon-molecules-in-space"},"modified":"2019-09-04T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T19:02:26","slug":"study-reveals-radical-wrinkle-in-forming-complex-carbon-molecules-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/study-reveals-radical-wrinkle-in-forming-complex-carbon-molecules-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals \u2018radical\u2019 wrinkle in forming complex carbon molecules in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reveals-radical-wrinkle-in-forming-complex-carbon-molecules-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has discovered a new possible pathway toward forming carbon structures in space using a specialized chemical exploration technique at the Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s research has now identified several avenues by which ringed molecules known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/polycyclic+aromatic+hydrocarbons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons<\/a>, or PAHs, can form in space. The latest study is a part of an ongoing effort to retrace the chemical steps leading to the formation of complex carbon-containing molecules in deep space.<\/p>\n<p>PAHs\u2014which also occur on Earth in emissions and soot from the combustion of fossil fuels\u2014could provide clues to the formation of life\u2019s chemistry in space as precursors to interstellar nanoparticles. They are estimated to account for about 20 percent of all carbon in our galaxy, and they have the chemical building blocks needed to form 2-D and 3D carbon structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has discovered a new possible pathway toward forming carbon structures in space using a specialized chemical exploration technique at the Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The team\u2019s research has now identified several avenues by which ringed molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, can form in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}