Physicochemical Determinants of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes on Cellular Toxicity: Influence of a Synthetic Method and Post-treatment
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- 作者：Ji-Eun Kim ; Seung-Hyon Kang ; Youngmi Moon ; Jin-Joo Chae ; Ah Young Lee ; Jae-Ho Lee ; Kyeong-Nam Yu ; Dae Hong Jeong ; Mansoo Choi ; Myung-Haing Cho
- 刊名：Chemical Research in Toxicology
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：February 17, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：27
- 期：2
- 页码：290-303
- 全文大小：879K
- ISSN：1520-5010
文摘
Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), scientists have performed extensive studies on nanotubes in the fields of materials science, physics, and electronic engineering. Because multiwalled CNTs (MWCNTs) are not homogeneous materials, and because it is not feasible to test every newly synthesized MWCNT, this study was aimed at investigating the physicochemical properties that primarily determine the cellular toxicity of MWCNTs. This study analyzed the relationship between cell viability and physicochemical characteristics following exposure to eight different MWCNTs. We generated eight different MWCNTs using various synthetic methods and post-treatments. From this analysis, we sought to identify the major physicochemical determinants that could predict the cellular toxicity of MWCNTs, regardless of the synthetic method and post-treatment conditions. Creation of binding sites on the tube walls by breaking C鈥揅 bonds played a pivotal role in increasing toxicity and was most clearly demonstrated by a Raman G peak shift and the ID/IG ratio. In addition, several factors were found to be strongly related to cellular toxicity: surface charge in the case of MWCNTs created by the chemical vapor deposition method and surface area and EPR intensity in the case of MWCNTs created by the arc discharge based method. The methods developed in this study could be applied to the prediction of the toxicity of newly synthesized MWCNTs.