. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 23.

Published in final edited form as: Biomacromolecules. 2009 Aug 10;10(8):2201–2206. doi: 10.1021/bm900382a

Table 1.

Summary of properties of different single-walled carbon nanotube surfactants. Peptides bearing glutamic acid residues on the termini score well in all categories.

	Covalent modification	SDBS	Pluronic	Lys-capped peptides	Glu-capped peptides
Suspension Stability	good	good⁷	fair	poor	good
Fluorescence/Absorbance	poor⁸	good⁹	fair⁹	good	fair
Cytotoxicity	varies^6,23	poor¹¹	good²⁰	not tested	good