Author details

Nanostructure

Surface coating

Nanostructure

Average size Cell line

 Cell viability

Viability test Reference

252 Cytotoxicity

 MTT assay

 [152]

concentration

62.5 μg/mL

 7 nm

 Hepatocyte

 cells 100, 98.55 and 21%, respectively

type

CdSe QDs CdTe QDs ZnSe QDs

InP QDs Table 1. (NR), SWCNT the

abbreviation

 of

Summary of in-vitro cytotoxicity

 studies with different kinds of

single-walled

 carbon nanotube, MWCNT for multiwalled

nanoparticles

 (NPs) and nanowires (NWs), NWs with aspect ratio <10 are often called

 carbon nanotube and QD for quantum dots.

 Cd-free

 Cd-free

—

37.5 and 75 nM

60 nM 80 nM

1–10 nm

 HUVEC cells

78%

 5 nm 1–10 nm

 HUVEC cells

 HEK293 cells

87 and

77%

67%

MTT assay Alamar Blue

[155]

assay

Alamar Blue

[155]

assay

nanorods

 [154]

 Oxidation for 0 h, 1 h, 2 h and

4 h Jose E. Perez1,2, Nouf Alsharif1,2, Aldo I. Martínez-Banderas1,2, Basmah Othman1 , Jasmeen Merzaban<sup>1</sup> , Timothy Ravasi<sup>1</sup> and Jürgen Kosel<sup>2</sup> \*

\*Address all correspondence to: jurgen.kosel@kaust.edu.sa

1 Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2 Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
