| Escalation of polymerization in a thermal gradient CB Mast, S Schink, U Gerland, D Braun Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (20), 8030-8035, 2013 | 194 | 2013 |
| Thermal trap for DNA replication CB Mast, D Braun Physical review letters 104 (18), 188102, 2010 | 178 | 2010 |
| Heated gas bubbles enrich, crystallize, dry, phosphorylate and encapsulate prebiotic molecules M Morasch, J Liu, CF Dirscherl, A Ianeselli, A Kühnlein, K Le Vay, ... Nature Chemistry 11 (9), 779-788, 2019 | 85 | 2019 |
| Dry polymerization of 3′, 5′‐cyclic GMP to long strands of RNA M Morasch, CB Mast, JK Langer, P Schilcher, D Braun ChemBioChem 15 (6), 879-883, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
| Proton gradients and pH oscillations emerge from heat flow at the microscale LMR Keil, FM Möller, M Kieß, PW Kudella, CB Mast Nature communications 8 (1), 1897, 2017 | 61 | 2017 |
| Non-equilibrium conditions inside rock pores drive fission, maintenance and selection of coacervate protocells A Ianeselli, D Tetiker, J Stein, A Kühnlein, CB Mast, D Braun, ... Nature chemistry 14 (1), 32-39, 2022 | 51 | 2022 |
| Periodic melting of oligonucleotides by oscillating salt concentrations triggered by microscale water cycles inside heated rock pores A Ianeselli, CB Mast, D Braun Angewandte Chemie 131 (37), 13289-13294, 2019 | 45 | 2019 |
| Thermal habitat for RNA amplification and accumulation A Salditt, LMR Keil, DP Horning, CB Mast, GF Joyce, D Braun Physical review letters 125 (4), 048104, 2020 | 43 | 2020 |
| Optical fluid and biomolecule transport with thermal fields FM Weinert, CB Mast, D Braun Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13 (21), 9918-9928, 2011 | 39 | 2011 |
| Emergence of life from trapped nucleotides? Non-equilibrium behavior of oligonucleotides in thermal gradients ED Agerschou, CB Mast, D Braun Synlett 28 (01), 56-63, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| Water cycles in a Hadean CO2 atmosphere drive the evolution of long DNA A Ianeselli, M Atienza, PW Kudella, U Gerland, CB Mast, D Braun Nature Physics 18 (5), 579-585, 2022 | 25 | 2022 |
| RNA Oligomerisation without Added Catalyst from 2′, 3′‐Cyclic Nucleotides by Drying at Air‐Water Interfaces AV Dass, S Wunnava, J Langlais, B von der Esch, M Krusche, L Ufer, ... ChemSystemsChem 5 (1), e202200026, 2023 | 24 | 2023 |
| Heat‐Flow‐Driven Oligonucleotide Gelation Separates Single‐Base Differences M Morasch, D Braun, CB Mast Angewandte Chemie 128 (23), 6788-6791, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| Heat flows in rock cracks naturally optimize salt compositions for ribozymes T Matreux, K Le Vay, A Schmid, P Aikkila, L Belohlavek, AZ Çalışkanoğlu, ... Nature Chemistry 13 (11), 1038-1045, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Physical non-equilibria for prebiotic nucleic acid chemistry A Ianeselli, A Salditt, C Mast, B Ercolano, CL Kufner, B Scheu, D Braun Nature Reviews Physics 5 (3), 185-195, 2023 | 9 | 2023 |
| Thermophoresis beyond local thermodynamic equilibrium DB Mayer, T Franosch, C Mast, D Braun Physical Review Letters 130 (16), 168202, 2023 | 8 | 2023 |
| Thermal solutions for molecular evolution CB Mast, N Osterman, D Braun International Journal of Modern Physics B 26 (32), 1230017, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| Disequilibrium first: the origin of life CB Mast, N Osterman, D Braun J. Cosmol 10, 3305-3314, 2010 | 7 | 2010 |
| A heated rock crack captures and polymerizes primordial DNA and RNA CF Dirscherl, A Ianeselli, D Tetiker, T Matreux, RM Queener, CB Mast, ... Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 25 (4), 3375-3386, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| RNA auto-polymerisation from 2’, 3’-cyclic nucleotides at air-water interfaces AV Dass, S Wunnava, J Langlais, B von der Esch, M Krusche, L Ufer, ... | 5 | 2022 |
