D-2: Water-rock interaction to connect abiotic and biotic worlds.

[OD2-02] Power Generation in Hierarchical Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents

*Hye-Eun Lee¹, Tomoyo Okumura², Hideshi Ooka³, Kiyohiro Adachi⁴, Takaaki Hikima⁵, Kunio Hirata⁵, Yoshiaki Kawano⁵, Hiroaki Matsuura⁵, Masaki Yamamoto⁵, Masahiro Yamamoto⁶, Akira Yamaguchi⁷, Ji-Eun Lee³, Ki Tae Nam⁸, Yasuhiko Ohara^6,9,10, Daisuke Hashizume⁴, Shawn Erin McGlynn^1,3, Ryuhei Nakamura^1,3 (1. Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), 2. Kochi University (Japan), 3. RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (Japan), 4. RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (Japan), 5. RIKEN SPring-8 Center (Japan), 6. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Japan), 7. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), 8. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University (Korea), 9. Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan (Japan), 10. Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University (Japan))

Keywords:Hydrothermal vent, origin of life, osmotic energy conversion, selective ion transport