Experimental Models of Primitive Cellular Compartments: Encapsulation, Growth, and Division

By M. Hanczyc, Shelly M Fujikawa, J. Szostak. Science, 2003

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How life began on Earth: a status report (2004, background): “RNA molecules adsorbed onto clays, such as montmorillonite, which can catalyze the formation of RNA oligomers, can be encapsulated into fatty acid vesicles whose formation in turn is accelerated by the clay [79].”
Presidential Address to the Mineralogical Society of America, Salt Lake City, October 18, 2005: Mineral surfaces and the prebiotic selection and organization of biomolecules (2006, background): “On the other hand, Hanczyc et al. (2003) showed that addition of fi ne-grained clay to a solution with a subcritical concentration of lipids may trigger the spontaneous formation of vesicles.”
Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of the RNA world. (2004, background): “Perhaps they were adsorbed to mineral particles within lipid membranes (Hanczyc et al., 2003).”