TABLE 1.

Overview of studies focusing on the impact of hydrophobicity on the corona formation around different types of nanomaterials

	Core material	Surface chemistry	Protein/media	References
Inorganic Core	Gold	Alkane Ethylene glycol	FBS	(Yu et al., 2020)
		Citrate Glycan PEG	HSA	(Meesaragandla et al., 2020)
		Alkyl ligands	HS	(Saha et al., 2016)
		Methyl Hydroxyl	ApoE, IgE, HSA	(Lu et al., 2019)
		Cetrimonium bromide Poly(styrene sulfonate) Poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) Poly(ethylene imine) PEG	HP	(Cai et al., 2020)
	Silica	Pristine	HP	(Monopoli et al., 2011)
		Pristine Amine Carboxyl	HP	(Tenzer et al., 2013)
	Graphene sheets	Pristine Hydroxyl	ApoE, IgE, HSA	(Lu et al., 2019)
Mixed core	Iron–platinum/poly(maleic anhydride‐alt‐dodecene)	PEG	HSA, Fib	(Pelaz et al., 2015)
	CdSe–ZnS quantum dots/dihydrolipoic acid	PEG Zwitterionic	BSA, FBS	(Perng et al., 2019)
	Magnetite/PLGA Magnetite/Dextran Magnetite/phosphatidylcholine	Carboxyl PEG Phosphatidylcholine	HP, porcine pulmonary surfactant	(Raesch et al., 2015)
Organic Core	PLGA	Pristine PEG	FBS	(Partikel et al., 2019)
	HSA PLGA/Didodecyldimethyl ammonium bromide	Pristine PEG	FBS	(Gossmann et al., 2015)
	Polystyrene	Pristine Amine Carboxyl	HP	(Tenzer et al., 2013)
		Pristine PEG PPE	HP	(Simon et al., 2018);
		Pristine PPE	HSA	(Müller et al., 2017)
		Sulfonate	HP	(Monopoli et al., 2011)
	Polystyrene Methylstyrene, Tert‐butylstyrene Methylmethacrylate Acrolein	–	HP	(Gessner et al., 2000)
	NIPAM/BAM	–	HP, HSA, Fib	(Cedervall et al., 2007)

Abbreviations: ApoE, apolipoprotein E; BSA, bovine serum albumin; CdSe‐ZnS, cadmium selenide zinc sulfide; FBS, fetal bovine serum; fib, fibrinogen; HP, human plasma; HS, human serum; HSA, human serum albumin; IgE, immunoglobulin E; NIPAM/BAM, N‐isopropylacrylamide/N‐tert‐butylacrylamide; PEG, poly(ethylene glycol); PLGA, poly(d,l‐lactide‐co‐glycolide); PPE, poly(phosphoester).