azotosome
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English
Etymology
From azote (“nitrogen”) + -o- + -some (“body”), from French azote (“nitrogen”) and Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”), a "nitrogen body", formed by analogy with liposome.
Noun
azotosome (plural azotosomes)
- (chemistry) A theoretical nitrogen-based counterpart to liposome structures composed of acrylonitrile self-assembled membrane in a liquid methane bath
- 2015 July 17, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Alexander Schulze-Makuch, Joop M. Houtkooper, “The Physical, Chemical and Physiological Limits of Life”, in Life, volume 5, number 3, pages 1472–86:
- Furthermore, Stevenson et al. recently suggested membranes composed of small organic nitrogen compounds, azotosomes that would be capable of forming and functioning in liquid methane at cryogenic temperatures.