TABLE 3.

Some antibacterial, anticancer, and drug delivery applications of nanoparticles.

Type of nanoparticles	Antibacterial	Cytotoxic	Drug delivery	Reference
Fe-doped ZnO	Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis	—	—	Ravichandran et al. (2017)
Fe-doped ZnO		—	—	Basith et al. (2016)
	Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus cereus ATCC, Salmonella typhi MTCC, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC, and Candida albicans ATCC
Fe-doped ZnO	Eschericia coli	—	—	Gambang (n.d.)
Fe-doped Mn3O4	Escherichia coli	—	—	Belkhedkar and Ubale, (2016)
Fe-doped bioactive glass	S. aureus NCIMB-17 and E. coli NCIMB-1	Osteosarcoma U2OS cells	—	Gupta et al. (2018)
Fe-doped ZnO	Escherichia coli (E.coli) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa	—	—	Kayani et al. (2018)
Fe-doped ZnO	Escherichia coli and Candida albicans	—	—	Chai et al. (2019)
Fe-doped brushite bone cements	Staphylococcus aureus strain, Escherichia coli strain, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain	—	—	Li et al. (2018)
Cu–Fe bimetallic	S. aureus, E. coli, and P. aeruginosa	—	—	Bakina et al. (2019)
Fe-doped ZnO	Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli bacterial strains	MCF 7 cell lines	—	Sekar et al. (2019)
Fe-doped ceria		Neuroblastoma cancer cells and HEK-293 healthy cells	—	Abbas et al. (2015)
Fe-based stents		Mammalian cells	—	Fagali et al. (2015)
Fe and Nd–Fe–B alloy as core carbon shells		Human bone-derived cells	—	Wozniak et al. (2006)
Fe70Pd30 nanotubes	—	IEC-6 cells*	Paracetamol	Rožman et al. (2012)
		SMI-100 cells**