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A range of manufactured nanoparticulate materials, including Ag, TiO2, Fe2O3, Al2O3, ZrO2, Si3N4, and a range of carbonaceous nanoparticulate materials: single-wall and multi-wall carbon nanotube aggregates and aggregated nanoparticles of black carbon, as well as commercial (mineral grade) chrysotile asbestos nanotube aggregates, have been rigorously characterized by transmission electron microscopy. These nanoparticulate materials ranged in primary particle sizes from roughly 3 to 150 nm (except for the nanotube materials with lengths in excess of 15 μm). Aggregate sizes ranged from 25 nm to 20 μm. Comparative cytotoxicological assessment of these nanomaterials was performed utilizing a murine (lung) macrophage cell line. Considering the chrysotile asbestos to be a positive control, and assigning it a relative cytotoxicity index of unity (1.0), relative cytotoxicity indexes were observed as follows at concentrations of 5 μg/ml: 1.6 and ∼ 0.4 for Ag and TiO2, respectively; 0.7–0.9 for the Fe2O3, Al2O3 and ZrO2, 0.4 for the Si3N4, 0.8 for the black carbon, and 0.9 to 1.1 for the carbon nanotube aggregate samples. Observations of a cytotoxic response, nearly identical to that for chrysotile asbestos, for multi-wall carbon nanotube aggregates which very closely resemble anthropogenic multi-wall carbon nanotubes in the environment, raise some concern for potential health effects, especially for long-term exposure.
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Soto, K.F., Carrasco, A., Powell, T.G. et al. Comparative in vitro cytotoxicity assessment of some manufacturednanoparticulate materials characterized by transmissionelectron microscopy. J Nanopart Res 7, 145–169 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-005-3473-1
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