Table 1.

List of selected coating agents, molecular formula, and applications in nanoparticles

Name	Molecular formula	Nanoparticles	Reference
Cationic
Oleylamine (OA)	CH3(CH2)7CH=CH(CH2)8NH2	In2O3	(Seo 2003)
Tetraoctylammonium bromide (OcBr)	(CH3(CH2)7)4N+ Br−	Co, Pd, PtRu, Pt3Sn	(Vogel 1997; Boennemann 1998; Bucher 2002; Modrow 2003)
Cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB)	CH3(CH2)15N+ (CH3)3 Br−	Au, Ag, Ni, CeO2, CuM2O5(M=Ho, Er), NiO, ZnO, SnO2, BaFe12O19	(Pillai 1993; Palla 1999; Porta 1999; Chen and Wu 2000; Chen and Hsieh 2002; Wang 2002; Wu 2002)
Hexadecylamine (HDA)	CH3(CH2)14CH2NH2	Ni, Cu2O, CdSe, CdSe@ZnS	(Rockenberger 1999; Talapin 2001; Hou and Gao 2003)
Neutral
p-Aminothiophenol (4-A)	HSPhNH2	Pt	(Gomez 2001)
Triphenylphosphine (TPP)	P(Ph)3	Cu146Se73(PPh3)30	(Krautscheid 1993)
Dodecanethiol (DDE)	CH3(CH2)10CH2SH	ZnO, Ru, Au	(Brust 1994; Wong 2001; Viau 2003)
Tributylphosphine (TBP)	(CH3(CH2)3)3 P	CdS, CdTe@CdS,	(Schreder 2000)
Anionic
Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)	CH3(CH2)6CH2SO4− Na+	Cu, CoCrFeO4, CoFe2O4	(Liu 2000; Vestal and Zhang 2002; Gui 2003)
Myristic acid (MA)	CH3(CH2)11CH2COOH	MnFe2O4, Fe3O4, CoFe2O4, NiFe2O4, ZnFe2O4	(Murray 1993; Murray 1995; Sun 1999; Murray 2001; Caruntu 2002)
Tetradecylphosphonic acid (TDPA)	CH3(CH2)12CH2PO(OH)2	CdTe	(Peng and Peng 2001)