No compelling evidence for clathrate hydrate formation under interstellar medium conditions over laboratory time scales

Affiliations

¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 mathieu.choukroun@jpl.nasa.gov.
² Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109.

Comment

Mathieu Choukroun et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019.

. 2019 Jul 16;116(29):14407-14408.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1902381116. Epub 2019 Jul 3.

¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 mathieu.choukroun@jpl.nasa.gov.
² Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Reply to Choukroun et al.: IR and TPD data suggest the formation of clathrate hydrates in laboratory experiments simulating ISM.
Ghosh J, Methikkalam RRJ, Bhuin RG, Ragupathy G, Choudhary N, Kumar R, Pradeep T. Ghosh J, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jul 16;116(29):14409-14410. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1905894116. Epub 2019 Jul 3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31270243 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Clathrate hydrates in interstellar environment.
Ghosh J, Methikkalam RRJ, Bhuin RG, Ragupathy G, Choudhary N, Kumar R, Pradeep T. Ghosh J, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jan 29;116(5):1526-1531. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1814293116. Epub 2019 Jan 10. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 30630945 Free PMC article.

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