Selected Publications

1. S. A. Nevins-Buchanan, L. Balogh, M. E. Meyerhoff. "Potentiometric Response Characteristics of Polycation Sensitive Membrane Electrodes Toward Poly(amidoamine) and Poly(propylenimine) Dendrimers" Anal. Chem. ASAP article, Web Release Date: 01/22 (2004)
2. Milas SM., Ye JY, Norris TB, Balogh LP, Baker Jr. JR, Hollman KW, Emelianov S, O’Donnell M. “Acoustic detection of microbubble formation induced by enhanced optical breakdown of silver-dendrimer nanocomposites” Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 994 (2003)
3. L. P. Balogh, S. S. Nigavekar, A. C. Cook, L. Minc, and M. K. Khan. “Development of dendrimer-gold radioactive nanocomposites to treat cancer microvasculature” PharmaChem 2(4), 94 (2003)

4. A Bielinska, J. D. Eichman, I. Lee, J. R. Baker, Jr., L. Balogh. “Imaging {Au0-PAMAM} Gold-Dendrimer Nanocomposites In Cells” J. of Nanoparticle Research 4, 395-403 (2002)

5. Zhang, C., O'Brien, S., Balogh, L. “Comparison and Stability of CdSe Nanocrystals Covered with Amphiphilic Poly(Amidoamine) Dendrimers” J. Phys. Chem. B. 106(40), 10316-10321 (2002)  
6. L. Balogh, C. X. Zhang, S. O’Brien, N. J. Turro, and Louis Brus. “Surface Modification of CdSe Nanocrystals with Organic Ligands” Chimica Oggi/Chemistry Today 20(6), 45-51 (2002)
7. Young-Soo Seo, Kwang-Sok Kim, Kwanwoo Shin, Henry White, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov, Binhua Lin, Chunxin Zhang and Lajos Balogh. “Morphology of Amphiphilic Gold-Dendrimer Nanocomposite Monolayers” Langmuir 18(15), 5927-5932 (2002)
8. L. Balogh, A. Bielinska, J. D. Eichman,R. Valluzzi, I. Lee,J. R. Baker, T. E. Lawrence and M. K. Khan. “Dendrimer nanocomposites in medicine” Chimica Oggi/Chemistry Today 20(5), 35-40 (2002)
9. M. F. Ottaviani, R. Valluzzi, L. Balogh. “Internal Structure of Silver-Poly(Amidoamine) Dendrimer Complexes and Nanocomposites” Macromolecules 35(13), 5105-5115 (2002)
10. Jing Yong Ye, L. Balogh and Theodore B. Norris. “Enhancement of Laser-Induced Optical Breakdown Using Metal/Dendrimer Nanocomposites” Applied Physics Letters 80, 1713 (2002)
11. O. P. Varnavski, R. G. Ispasoiu, L. Balogh, D. A. Tomalia and T. Goodson, III. “Ultrafast Time-resolved Photoluminescence from Novel Metal-Dendrimer Nanocomposites” J. Chem. Phys. 114(5), 1962-1965 (2001) <
12. L. Balogh, D. R. Swanson, D. A. Tomalia, G. L. Hagnauer, A. T. McManus. "Dendrimer-Silver Complexes and Nanocomposites as Antimicrobial Agents" Nano Letters 1(1), 18-21 (2001)
13. R. G. Ispasoiu, L. Balogh, O. P. Varnavski, D. A. Tomalia and T. Goodson, III. “Large optical Limiting and Ultrafast Luminescence Dynamics from Novel Metal-Dendrimer Nanocomposite Materials” Journal of Am. Chem. Soc. 22, 11005-11006 (2000)
14. L. Balogh, D. A. Tomalia and Gary L. Hagnauer. “Revolution of nanoscale proportions." Chemical Innovation March, 19-26 (2000)
15. L. Balogh, K.S. Laverdure, S.P. Gido, A.G. Mott, M.J. Miller, B.P. Ketchel, D.A. Tomalia. ”Dendrimer-Metal Nanocomposites. In: Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc 576, 69-75 (1999)
16. L. Balogh, R. Valluzzi, G. L. Hagnauer, K. S. Laverdure, S. P. Gido and D. A. Tomalia. "Formation of Silver and Gold Dendrimer Nanocomposites" J. of Nanoparticle Res. 1(3), 353-368 (1999)
17. Jin-An He, R. Valluzzi, Ke Yang, Tigran Dolukhanyan, Changmo Sung, J. Kumar, S. K. Tripathy, L. Samuelson, L. Balogh and D.A. Tomalia. "Electrostatic Multilayer Deposition of a Gold-Dendrimer Nanocomposite" Chem. Mater. 11(11), 3268-3274 (1999)
18. Jin-An He, R. Valluzzi, Ke Yang, Tigran Dolukhanyan, Changmo Sung, J. Kumar, S. K. Tripathy, L. Samuelson, L. Balogh and D.A. Tomalia. "Electrostatic Multilayer Deposition of a Gold-Dendrimer Nanocomposite" Chem. Mater. 11(11), 3268-3274 (1999)
19. N.C. Beck Tan, L. Balogh, S.F. Trevino, D.A. Tomalia, and J.S. Lin. "A Small Angle Scattering Study of Dendrimer-Copper Sulfide Nanocomposites" Polymer 40, 2537-2545 (1999)
20. Balogh, L., de Leuze-Jallouli, A., Dvornic, P., Kunugi, Y., Blumstein, A., Tomalia, D. A. "Architectural Copolymers of PAMAM Dendrimers and Ionic Polyacetylenes" Macromolecules 32(4), 1036-1042 (1999)
21. M. Diallo, L. Balogh, A. Shafagati, J. H. Johnson, Jr., W. A. Goddard III and D. A. Tomalia. "Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers: A New Class of High Capacity Chelating Agents for Cu(II) Ions" Environ. Sci. and Technol. 33(5), 820-824 (1999)
22. D.A. Tomalia, S. Uppuluri, D.R. Swanson, H.M. Brothers II, L.T. Piehler, D.J. Meijer, G.L. Hagnauer, L. Balogh. "Dendritic Macromolecules: A Fourth Major Class of Polymer Architecture - New Properties Driven by Architecture" Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc 543, 289-298 (1999)
23. N. Beck Tan, L. Balogh, S. Trevino, D. A. Tomalia, J. S. Lin. "Characterization of Dendrimer-based Nanocomposites by SAXS and SANS. In Hybrid Materials" Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc 519, 143-150 (1998) <
24. L. Balogh and Donald A. Tomalia. "Poly(Amidoamine) Dendrimer-Templated Nanocomposites I. Synthesis of Zero-Valent Copper Nanoclusters" Journal of Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 7355-7356 (1998)
25. L. Balogh, L. Samuelson, K. S. Alva and A. Blumstein. "Synthesis, homopolymerization and block copolymerization of N-ethyl-2-ethynyl-pyridinium trifluoromethanesulfonate with styrene and butadiene" Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry 36, 703-755 (1998)
26. N. Beck Tan, S. F. Trevino and L. Balogh. "Nanomolecular Composites From Dendrimer Templates" Proceedings of the 21st Army Science Conference June, Norfolk, VA, 15-17 (1998)
27. L. Balogh, D. R. Swanson, R. Spindler and D. A. Tomalia. "Formation and Characterization of Dendrimer-Based Water Soluble Inorganic Nanocomposites" Proceedings of ACS PMSE 77, 118 (1997)
28. Nora Beck Tan, L. Balogh and S. Trevino. "Structure of Metallo-Organic Nanocomposites Produced from Dendrimer Complexes" Proceedings of ACS PMSE 77, 120 (1997)
29. D.A.Tomalia, P. R. Dvornic, S. Uppuluri, D. R. Swanson and L. Balogh. "Skeletal Macromolecular Isomerism: A Comparison of Dendritic Polymer Properties to those of Classical Macromolecular Architectures" Proceedings of ACS PMSE 77, 95 (1997)
30. Balogh, A. Blumstein, A. Jallouli, P. Dvornic and D. A. Tomalia. "Dendrimer initiated ionic polyacetylenes" Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. 37(2), 417 (1996)
31. Lajos Balogh, Lynne Samuelson, K. Shridhara Alva, and Alexandre Blumstein. "Amphiphilic Block Copolymer of Styrene and Ionic Acetylene" Macromolecules 29, 4180-4186 (1996)
32. L. Balogh and Alexandre Blumstein. “Conjugated Ionic Polyacetylenes 7. Oligomerization of 2-Ethynylpyridinium methyl trifluoromethyl sulfonate in methanol and pyridine” Macromolecules 28(1), 25(1995)
33. L. Balogh and A. Blumstein. “Conjugated Ionic Polyacetylenes 9. Polymerization of 2-Ethynylpyridinium methyl trifluoromethyl sulfonate in nonprotic solvents” Macromolecules 28(17), 5691 (1995)
34. Balogh, L. Samuelson, S. Alva and A. Blumstein. "Thin films of ionic polyacetylene block copolymers" Proceedings of ACS PMSE 73, 312 (1995)
35. Balogh and A. Blumstein. "Block copolymerization of N-Ethyl-2-Ethynylpyridinium methyl trifluoro-methanesulfonate with styrene and butadiene" Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. 36(2), 211 (1995)
36. Peiguang Zhou, L. Balogh, and Alexandre Blumstein. "Synthesis and characterization of conjugated poly(2-ethynylpyridine) - Model for the substituted ionic, extensively conjugated polyacetylene" Proceedings of ACS PMSE 71, 127 (1994)
37. L. Balogh and A. Blumstein. "Water soluble copolymer of styrene and an ionic conjugated polyacety-lene: Synthesis of the polystyrene-block-poly(2-Ethynylpyridinium methyl trifluoromethanesulfonate)" Proceedings of ACS PMSE 71, 125 (1994)
38. L. Balogh and A. Blumstein. "Oligomerization of 2-Ethynylpyridinium methyl trifluoromethanesulfonate in acetonitrile, DMF and DMSO" Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. 35(2), 678 (1994)
39. L. Balogh, Zs. Fodor, Tibor Kelen and R. Faust. “Initiation Via Haloboration In Living Cationic Polymerization 2. Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of Isobutylene Polymerization” Macromolecules 26(17), 21 (1994)
40. L. Balogh, L. Wang and R. Faust. “Initiation via Haloboration In Living Cationic Polymerization 1. The Polymerization of Isobutylene” Macromolecules 26(16), 3452 (1994)
41. N. Rapoport, N. Livanova, L. Balogh, and T. Kelen. “Simulation of the Durability and Approach to the Stabilization of Polyolefines undergoing Oxidative Degradation under Mechanical Stress” International Journal of Polymeric Materials 19, 101-108 (1993)
42. T. Kelen, M. Zsuga, L. Balogh, I. Majoros, Gy. Deak. “Some aspects of the living isobutylene polymerization” Makromol. Chem., Macromol. Symp. 67, 325-338 (1993)
43. L. Balogh and Alexandre Blumstein. "Ionic poly-acetylenes with conjugated backbones: kinetic investigation of the polymerization of 2-Ethynylpyri-dinium methyl triflate" Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. 34(2), 434 (1993)
44. L. Balogh, A. Takacs and R. Faust. "Syntheses of methacrylate and isobutyrate functional PIB by living polymerization using functional initiators" Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. 33(1), 958 (1992)
45. M. Gyor, L. Balogh, H.-C. Wang and R. Faust. "Living Carbocationic Polymerization of Isobutylene in the presence of Proton Trap" Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. 33(1), 158 (1992)
46. L. Balogh and R. Faust. “Living Carbocationic polymerization of isobutylene with BCl3 coinitiation in the presence of di-tert-butylpyridine as proton trap” Polymer Bulletin 28, 367-374 (1992)
47. M. Zsuga, T. Kelen, L. Balogh, and I. Majoros. “Complexation of the Propagating Chain-end in Living Cationic Polymerization” Polymer Bulletin 29, 127-134 (1992)
48. H-A. Nguyen, L. Balogh, T, Kelen, J. Borbely, L. Gulyas, and I. Majoros. “Cationic Initiation by Thionyl Chloride/Titanium tetrachloride, II. Styrene Polymerization” Journal of Makromol. Sci.-Chem. A27(3), 247 (1990)
49. L. Balogh, I. Majoros, T. Kelen. “Direct Monitoring of Cationic Polymerization by Temperature, Conductivity and Permittivity Measurements” Polymer Bulletin 23, 75 (1990)
50. H. A. Nguyen, L. Balogh, T, Kelen, S. Holly, J. Borbely. “Cationic Initiation by Thionyl Chloride/Titanium tetrachloride, I. Model reactions” J. of Makro-mol. Sci.-Chem. A27(2), 225 (1990)
51. L. Balogh. “Simple Separation of Products of Glycerolysis by Low Pressure Column Chromatography” J. of Chromatography 286, 104-112 (1984)
52. Zsuga, V Szabo, L. Balogh. “Base-catalyzed Transformation of a b-Dicarbonyl Acetal, 1-(2-hydroxy-Phenyl)-2-Phenyl-3,3-Dimethoxypropane-1-One into Isoflavone and 2-Hydrodeoxy-benzoin” React. Kinet. Catal. Letters 8(1), 1-6 (1978)
53. Levai, L. Balogh. “Synthesis of Isoflavones Substituted in Ring B by the Oxidative Rearrangement of 2`-Hydroxychalcones with Thallium(III)Nitrate” Pharmazie 30 H.11, 747-748 (1975)

Patents

1. D. A. Tomalia and L. Balogh: “Nanocomposites of Dendritic Polymers” US 6,995,234 (2006)
2. D. A. Tomalia and L. Balogh: “Nanocomposites of Dendritic Polymers” US 6,664,315 B2 (2003)
3. D. A. Tomalia and L. Balogh: “Method and Articles for Transfection of Genetic Material,” US 6,475,994 (2002)
4. L. Balogh, D. R. Swanson, D. A. Tomalia, G. L. Hagnauer, A. T. McManus: "Antimicrobial Dendrimer Nanocomposites and a Method of Treating Wounds," US 6,224,898 B1 (2001)
5. L. Balogh,, A. DeLeuze-Jallouli, P. R. Dvornic, M. J. Owen, S. V. Perz and R. Spindler, “Dendrimer-based Nanoscopic Sponges and Metal Composites” US 5,938,934 (1999)
6. R. Faust and L. Balogh: U.S. 5,665,837 (1997); Initiation via Haloboration in Living Cationic Polymerization
7. L. Fabian, L. Balogh, T. Kelen: Hung. Teljes HU 59,754 (1993); Combined measuring instrument for monitoring reactions in nonaqueous media.
8. L. Balogh, I. Majoros, T. Kelen: Hung. Teljes HU 59,706 (1992); Manufacture of telechelic chlorine-containing polyisobutylene with stepwise monomer addition.
9. S. Elek, L. Balogh, I. Merczel, Sz. Borbely, I. Majoros, M. Zsuga, B. Kocsar, M. Balint, T. Kelen: Hung. Teljes HU 46,552 (1989); Purification of wastewater from penicillin manufacture.
10. L. Balogh, J. Borbely, L. Gulyas, J. Nagy, J. Borda, V. Szabo, S. Nemes, B Deak: Hung. Teljes HU 50,095 (1990); Process for producing 1-naphthalene acetic acid.

Press Coverage of our Work

1. “The incredible shrinking process” Chemical Engineering Progress 97 (10), 14 (2001)
2. “Dendrimer–silver complexes can be used as antimicrobial agents” Chemical Innovation 31 (5), 5 (2001)
3. “U scientists to develop ‘smart bombs’ that seek out and destroy cancer cells” The University Record (October 25 1999) and (November 1 1999)
4. “Molecular Legos - the Science of the Future” Hajdu-Bihari Napló Debrecen, Hungary (May 25 1999)
5. “Duo finds a behemoth in the quest of smallness” The Saginaw News (February 10 1999)
6. Ron Dagani. “Jewel-studded Molecular Trees” C&E News, 33-36 (February 8 1999)
7. “MMI makes discovery involving dendrimers” Midland Daily News (February 8 1999)
8. Corinna Wu. ”Shaping Synthetic Metals” Science News 151, 384-385 (June 21 1997)