Silicon (Si) is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, found in large quantities in soil. While Si is not essential for land plants, many plants, such as rice and grasses, have used Si to develop ...
In 1811 Gay-Lussac and Thenard probably obtained impure amorphous silicon by heating ... It is now produced on a large scale by heating silica with carbon in an electric furnace, at high ...
The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c06881. Additional details on the data analysis and methods ...
In this Research Topic we want to set the stage for significant advances in all aspects of phytolith research. Phytoliths are deposits of amorphous silica in higher plants. Deposition takes place in a ...