Donald A. Tomalia

Virginia Commonwealth University — United States

Materials Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers(97), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery(40), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization(29), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials(17), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques(16)

Publications100 total

Dendrimer engineering to overcome delivery challenges of nucleic acids
Nature Reviews Bioengineering·2025· 4 cited
Correction: Tomalia, D.A. Dendrimers, Dendrons, and the Dendritic State: Reflection on the Last Decade with Expected New Roles in Pharma, Medicine, and the Life Sciences. Pharmaceutics 2024, 16, 1530
Pharmaceutics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Dendrimers, Dendrons, and the Dendritic State: Reflection on the Last Decade with Expected New Roles in Pharma, Medicine, and the Life Sciences
Pharmaceutics·2024· 22 citedOpen Access
Early Goddard Contributions Confirming the Dendritic State: Engineering PAMAM Dendrimer CNDPs to Generate CW-Terahertz Radiation Suitable for Molecular, Bio- and Diagnostics Imaging Spectroscopy
Springer series in materials science·2021
Synthesis, Internalization and Visualization of N-(4-Carbomethoxy) Pyrrolidone Terminated PAMAM [G5:G3-TREN] Tecto(dendrimers) in Mammalian Cells
Molecules·2020· 21 citedOpen Access
The Role of Branch Cell Symmetry and Other Critical Nanoscale Design Parameters in the Determination of Dendrimer Encapsulation Properties
Biomolecules·2020· 54 citedOpen Access
Contributors
Elsevier eBooks·2019
Non-Traditional Intrinsic Luminescence (NTIL): Dynamic Quenching Demonstrates the Presence of Two Distinct Fluorophore Types Associated with NTIL Behavior in Pyrrolidone-Terminated PAMAM Dendrimers
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C·2019· 41 cited
Critical evaluation of the interaction of special proteins with human stratum corneum via terahertz scanning reflectometry and spectrometry
Precision Nanomedicine·2019· 1 citedOpen Access
Terahertz-based nanometrology: multispectral imaging of nanoparticles and nanoclusters in suspensions
Journal of Nanoparticle Research·2018· 4 cited
Determination of non-traditional intrinsic fluorescence (NTIF) emission sites in 1-(4-carbomethoxypyrrolidone)-PAMAM dendrimers using CNDP-based quenching studies
Journal of Nanoparticle Research·2018· 21 cited
A Serendipitous Journey Leading to My Love of Dendritic Patterns and Chemistry
Molecules·2018· 1 citedOpen Access
Intrinsic Fluorescence of Triazine Dendrimers Provides a New Approach to Study Dendrimer Structure and Conformational Dynamics
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C·2017· 16 cited
Engineering dendrimers to produce dendrimer dipole excitation based terahertz radiation sources suitable for spectrometry, molecular and biomedical imaging
Nanoscale Horizons·2017· 12 cited
Special Issue: “Functional Dendrimers”
Molecules·2016· 19 citedOpen Access
A Systematic Framework and Nanoperiodic Concept for Unifying Nanoscience: Hard/Soft Nanoelements, Superatoms, Meta-Atoms, New Emerging Properties, Periodic Property Patterns, and Predictive Mendeleev-like Nanoperiodic Tables
Chemical Reviews·2016· 226 cited
Emerging concepts in dendrimer‐based nanomedicine: from design principles to clinical applications
Journal of Internal Medicine·2014· 520 cited
IN QUEST OF A SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK FOR UNIFYING AND DEFINING NANOSCIENCE
Modern Physics Letters B·2014· 19 cited
Analysis of polyamidoamine dendrimers by isoelectric focusing
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry·2013· 9 cited
A Proposed Taxonomy and Classification Strategy for Well‐Defined, Soft‐Matter Nanoscale Building Blocks
2013· 3 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Nicholas J. Turro(12), M. Francesca Ottaviani(10), Steffen Jockusch(7), Herbert M. Brothers(4), Lajos Balogh(3), Douglas R. Swanson(3), Lars T. Piehler(3), Barry J. Bauer(3), Eric J. Amis(3), June W. Klimash(3), Baohua Huang(3), R. Spindler(3), Sönke Svenson(2), Fabio Montalti(2), David M. Hedstrand(2), Richard Smith(2), Andreas Topp(2), H. D. Durst(2), Marina Brustolon(2), Petar R. Dvornić(2)