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Ronald A. Smaldone
Researcher at University of Texas at Dallas
Publications - 59
Citations - 3335
Ronald A. Smaldone is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Dallas. The author has contributed to research in topics: Polymer & Supramolecular chemistry. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 54 publications receiving 2574 citations. Previous affiliations of Ronald A. Smaldone include Northwestern University & University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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Metal-organic frameworks from edible natural products.
Ronald A. Smaldone,Ross S. Forgan,Hiroyasu Furukawa,Jeremiah J. Gassensmith,Alexandra M. Z. Slawin,Omar M. Yaghi,J. Fraser Stoddart +6 more
TL;DR: A strategy to overcome the challenge in preparing MOFs from natural products using g-cyclodextrin (g-CD), a symmetrical cyclic oligosaccharide that is mass-produced enzymatically from starch and comprised of eight asymmetric a-1,4-linked dglucopyranosyl residues, and the key to this success lies in the symmetric arrangement within the g-CD torus.
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Strong and reversible binding of carbon dioxide in a green metal-organic framework.
Jeremiah J. Gassensmith,Hiroyasu Furukawa,Ronald A. Smaldone,Ross S. Forgan,Youssry Y. Botros,Youssry Y. Botros,Omar M. Yaghi,Omar M. Yaghi,J. Fraser Stoddart +8 more
TL;DR: The highly selective adsorption of CO(2) by CD-MOF-2, a recently described green MOF consisting of the renewable cyclic oligosaccharide γ-cyclodextrin and RbOH, by what is believed to be reversible carbon fixation involving carbonate formation and decomposition at room temperature is reported.
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Nanoporous Carbohydrate Metal–Organic Frameworks
Ross S. Forgan,Ronald A. Smaldone,Jeremiah J. Gassensmith,Hiroyasu Furukawa,David B. Cordes,Qiaowei Li,Christopher E. Wilmer,Youssry Y. Botros,Youssry Y. Botros,Randall Q. Snurr,Alexandra M. Z. Slawin,J. Fraser Stoddart +11 more
TL;DR: These new MOFs demonstrate that the CDs can indeed function as ligands for alkali and alkaline earth metal cations in a manner similar to that found with crown ethers, which make them realistic candidates for commercial development.
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Biodegradable 3D printed polymer microneedles for transdermal drug delivery.
Michael A. Luzuriaga,Danielle R. Berry,John C. Reagan,Ronald A. Smaldone,Jeremiah J. Gassensmith +4 more
TL;DR: This work presents a new microfabrication technique for MNs using fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing using polylactic acid, an FDA approved, renewable, biodegradable, thermoplastic material, and demonstrates how the swellability of PLA can be exploited to load small molecule drugs and how its degradability in skin can release those small molecules over time.
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An Elastic Hydrogen-Bonded Cross-Linked Organic Framework for Effective Iodine Capture in Water.
Yun-Xiao Lin,Yun-Xiao Lin,Xuan-Feng Jiang,Samuel T. Kim,Sampath B. Alahakoon,Xisen Hou,Zhiyun Zhang,Christina M. Thompson,Ronald A. Smaldone,Chenfeng Ke +9 more
TL;DR: A crystalline microporous hydrogen-bonded cross-linked organic framework has been developed through covalent photo-cross-linking of molecular monomers that are assembled in a crystalline state with a high uptake capacity in an aqueous environment.