Research Article

Modeling In Vitro Cellular Responses to Silver Nanoparticles

Table 1

Properties of silver NPs used in the model.

NP Coating Core material Density (g/cm3) Mol. wt. Coating mol. wt Zeta potential (mV)

Ag20 Citrate Ag 10.49 108 258 −39.2
Ag50 Citrate Ag 10.49 108 258 −39.2
C20 Citrate Au 10.87 115.3 258 −44.3
P20 PVP Au 10.87 115.3 10000 −38.2
C110 Citrate Au 10.49 108.04 258 −45.2
P110 PVP Au 10.49 108.04 40000 −31.6

Source: nAg properties (for Ag20, Ag50) from Leo et al., 2013 [19]; nAg properties (for C20, P20, C110, and P110) from http://www.nanoComposix.com.