  The Panspermia hypothesis posits that either life's building blocks
(molecular Panspermia) or life itself (organism-based Panspermia) may have been
interplanetary transferred to facilitate the Origins of Life (OoL) on a given
planet, complementing several current OoL frameworks. Although many spaceflight
experiments were performed in the past to test for potential terrestrial
organisms as Panspermia seeds, it is uncertain whether such organisms will
likely "seed" a new planet even if they are able to survive spaceflight.
Therefore, rather than using organisms, using abiotic chemicals as seeds has
been proposed as part of the molecular Panspermia hypothesis. Here, as an
extension of this hypothesis, we introduce and review the plausibility of a
polymeric material-based Panspermia seed (M-BPS) theoretical concept, where the
type of polymeric material that can function as a M-BPS must be able to: 1)
survive spaceflight, and 2) "function", i.e., contingently drive chemical
evolution towards some form of abiogenesis once arriving on a foreign planet.
  We use polymeric gels as a model example of a potential M-BPS. Polymeric gels
that can be prebiotically synthesized on one planet (such as polyester gels)
could be transferred to another planet via meteoritic transfer, where upon
landing on a liquid bearing planet, can assemble into structures containing
cellular-like characteristics and functionalities. Such features presupposed
that these gels can assemble into compartments through phase separation to
accomplish relevant functions such as encapsulation of primitive metabolic,
genetic and catalytic materials, exchange of these materials, motion,
coalescence, and evolution. All of these functions can result in the gels'
capability to alter local geochemical niches on other planets, thereby allowing
chemical evolution to lead to OoL events.
