'Buckyballs' have high potential to accumulate in living tissue

Friday, September 19, 2008 - 11:07 in Biology & Nature

Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules also appear to break down in sunlight, perhaps reducing their possible environmental dangers. read more

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