Publications

Potiszil C., Yamanaka, M., Ota, T., Sakaguchi, C., Kitagawa, H., Tanaka, R., Kunihiro, T., Kobayashi, K. and Nakamura, E. (2026) Constraining the Effects of Pre-and Post-accretionary Processes on Ryugu Insoluble Organic Matter, The Astrophysical Journal, 999 (2), 187-209.

Kumar, R., Kobayashi, K., Potiszil C. and Kunihiro, T. (2025) Development of a technique to identify μm-sized organic matter in asteroidal material: An approach using machine learning, Applied Computing and Geosciences, 27, 100277.

Douglas-Song, T., Ota, T., Yamanaka, M., Kitagawa, H., Tanaka, R., Potiszil C. and Kunihiro, T. (2025) Lithium-and oxygen-isotope compositions of a Si-rich nebular reservoir determined from chondrule constituents in the Sahara 97103 EH3 chondrite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 400, 51-71.

Potiszil C., Ota, T., Yamanaka, M., Kobayashi., K., Tanaka, R. and Nakamura, E. (2025) Meteoritic and asteroidal amino acid heterogeneity: Implications for planetesimal alteration conditions and sample return missions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 653, 119205.

Chandru, K., Potiszil, C. and Jia, T. (2024) Alternative Pathways in Astrobiology: Reviewing and Synthesizing Contingency and Non-Biomolecular Origins of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life, Life, 14 (9), 1069-1089.

Potiszil C., Ota, T. and Nakamura, E. (2024) Reconciling remote sensing estimates of Ryugu's albedo with laboratory measurements. Nature Astronomy, 8, 1617-1621.

Tanaka, R., Ratnayake, D., Ota, T., Miklusicak, N., Kunihiro, T., Potiszil, C., et al. (2024) Unraveling the Cr Isotopes of Ryugu: An Accurate Aqueous Alteration Age and the Least Thermally Processed Solar System Material. The Astrophysical Journal, 965 (1), 52-63.

Potiszil, C., Yamanaka, M., Sakaguchi, C., Ota, T., Kitagawa, H., Kunihiro, T., Tanaka, R., Kobayashi, K. and Nakamura, E. (2023) Organic Matter in the Asteroid Ryugu: What We Know So Far. Life, 13, 1448.

Ota, T., Potiszil, C., Kobayashi, K., Tanaka, R., Kitagawa, H., Kunihiro, T., Sakaguchi, C., Yamanaka, M. and Nakamura, E. (2023) The Formation of a Rubble Pile Asteroid: Insights from the Asteroid Ryugu. Universe, 9, 293.

Chen, C., Yi, R., Igisu, M., Sakaguchi, C., Afrin, R., Potiszil, C., Kunihiro, T., Kobayashi, K., Nakamura, E., Ueno, Y., et al. (2023) Spectroscopic and Biophysical Methods to Determine Differential Salt‐Uptake by Primitive Membraneless Polyester Microdroplets. Small Methods.

Avramescu, M., Potiszil, C., Kunihiro, T., Okabe, K. and Eizo Nakamura. (2023) An investigation of the internal morphology of asbestos ferruginous bodies: constraining their role in the onset of malignant mesothelioma. Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 20:19.

Potiszil, C., et al. (2023) Insights into the formation and evolution of extraterrestrial amino acids from the asteroid Ryugu. Nature Communications, 14, 1482–1488.

Rattray, J. E., Zetterlind, A., Smittenberg, R. H., Potiszil, C. and Neubeck, A. (2022) Complexity of the serpentinization lipidome. Organic Geochemistry, 174, 104514-104527.

Nakamura E., …, Potiszil C. [6/91], et al. (2022) On the origin and evolution of the asteroid Ryugu: A comprehensive geochemical perspective. Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B 98, PJA9806B-01.

Tripathi, H., Potiszil, C., Tanaka, R. and Nakamura, E. (2022) The ice-organic-silicate contents of small solar system bodies: indicators for a comet to asteroid evolutionary pathway. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513, 3734–3741.

Potiszil, C., Montgomery, W. and Sephton, M. A. (2021) Heterogeneity within refractory organic matter from CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrites: Evidence from Raman spectroscopy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 574, 117149.

Tanaka R., Potiszil, C. and Nakamura, E. (2021) Silicon and Oxygen Isotope Evolution of the Inner Solar System. The Planetary Science Journal, 2, 102.

Kunihiro, T., Ota, T., Yamanaka, M., Potiszil, C., Nakamura, E. and Krot, A. (2021) The trace element composition of chondrule constituents: Implications for sample return methodologies and the chondrule silicate reservoir. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 21, maps.13665.

Potiszil C., Tanaka R., Kobayashi K., Kunihiro T. and Nakamura E. (2020) The Albedo of Ryugu: Evidence for a High Organic Abundance, as Inferred from the Hayabusa2 Touchdown Maneuver. Astrobiology, 20, 916–921.

Potiszil C., Tanaka R., Ota T., Kunihiro T., Kobayashi K. and Nakamura E. (2020) Concentration of meteoritic free organic matter by fluid transport and adsorption. Geochemical Perspectives Letters,        13, 30–35.

Potiszil C., Montgomery W. and Sephton M. A. (2017) Effects of Pressure on Model Compounds of Meteorite Organic Matter. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 1, 475–482.

Montgomery W., Potiszil C., Watson J. S. and Sephton M. A. (2016) Sporopollenin, a Natural Copolymer, is Robust under High Hydrostatic Pressure. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 217, 2494–2500.