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Overview

J. Theo Kloprogge is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials, Inorganic Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The research topics covered by Kloprogge include:

  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Mineralogy and Gemology Studies
  • Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis
  • Crystal Structures and Properties
  • Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications
  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications

Kloprogge has published in a range of scientific journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Preprints.org
  • Life
  • Materials
  • Applied Sciences
  • Minerals

Recent papers by Kloprogge include:

  • "Clays and the Origin of Life: The Experiments", 2022, Life
  • "X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Study of Some Organic and Inorganic Modified Clay Minerals", 2021, Materials
  • "Spectroscopic Studies of Synthetic and Natural Saponites: A Review", 2021, Minerals
  • "X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Study of Layered Double Hydroxides with Different Exchangeable Anions", 2025, Applied Sciences

Collaborations have been an element of Kloprogge's research, with frequent co-authors including Concepcion P. Ponce, Barry Wood, Tom A. Loomis, Danilo Ortillo, and Hyman Hartman. These partnerships reflect ongoing work in their research areas, often contributing to shared topics and publications.

Best Publications

  • Porous Materials for Oil Spill Cleanup: A Review of Synthesis and Absorbing Properties

    M.O. Adebajo;R.L. Frost;J.T. Kloprogge;O. Carmody

  • Infrared and Raman study of interlayer anions CO32–, NO3–, SO42– and ClO4– in Mg/Al-hydrotalcite

    J. Theo Kloprogge;David Wharton;Leisel Hickey;Ray L. Frost

  • XPS study of the major minerals in bauxite: gibbsite, bayerite and (pseudo-)boehmite.

    J. Theo Kloprogge;Loc V. Duong;Barry J. Wood;Ray L. Frost

  • Fourier Transform Infrared and Raman Spectroscopic Study of the Local Structure of Mg-, Ni-, and Co-Hydrotalcites

    J.Theo Kloprogge;Ray L. Frost

  • FT‐Raman and FT‐IR spectroscopic study of synthetic Mg/Zn/Al‐hydrotalcites

    J. Theo Kloprogge;Leisel Hickey;Ray L. Frost

  • Synthesis of smectite clay minerals; a critical review

    J. Theo Kloprogge;Sridhar Komarneni;James E. Amonette

  • Changes in the morphology of organoclays with HDTMA+ surfactant loading

    Hongping He;Hongping He;Ray L. Frost;Thor Bostrom;Peng Yuan

  • THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF BAUXITE MINERALS: INFRARED EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OF GIBBSITE, BOEHMITE AND DIASPORE

    Jacob Kloprogge;Huada Ruan;Raymond Frost

  • Infrared emission spectroscopic study of brucite

    Ray L Frost;J.Theo Kloprogge

  • Near-infrared and mid-infrared spectroscopic study of sepiolites and palygorskites

    Ray L. Frost;Oliver B. Locos;Huada Ruan;J.Theo Kloprogge

  • Comparison of Raman spectra in characterizing gibbsite, bayerite, diaspore and boehmite

    Huada Ruan;Raymond Frost;Jacob Kloprogge

  • Modification of Wyoming Montmorillonite Surfaces Using a Cationic Surfactant

    Yunfei Xi;Ray L. Frost;Hongping He;J. Theo Kloprogge

  • Infrared spectroscopy of goethite dehydroxylation: III. FT-IR microscopy of in situ study of the thermal transformation of goethite to hematite

    Huada Ruan;Raymond Frost;Jacob Kloprogge;Loc Duong

  • Raman and infrared spectroscopic study of the vivianite-group phosphates vivianite, baricite and bobierrite

    Ray L Frost;Wayde Neil Martens;Peter A Williams;J. T. Kloprogge

  • The effects of synthesis pH and hydrothermal treatment on the formation of zinc aluminum hydrotalcites

    J. Theo Kloprogge;Leisel Hickey;Ray L. Frost

  • Raman spectroscopic study of azurite and malachite at 298 and 77 K

    Raymond Frost;Wayde Martens;Llewellyn Rintoul;Emir Mahmutagic

  • The behavior of hydroxyl units of synthetic goethite and its dehydroxylated product hematite.

    Huada Ruan;Raymond Frost;Jacob Kloprogge

  • Raman spectroscopy of the basic copper chloride minerals atacamite and paratacamite: implications for the study of copper, brass and bronze objects of archaeological significance

    Ray L. Frost;Wayde N. Martens;J. Theo Kloprogge;Peter A. Williams

  • The effects of various hydrothermal treatments on magnesium-aluminium hydrotalcites

    L. Hickey;J. T. Kloprogge;R. L. Frost

  • Infrared emission spectroscopic study of the thermal transformation of Mg-, Ni- and Co-hydrotalcite catalysts

    J. Theo Kloprogge;Ray L. Frost

  • Mechanochemical Treatment of Kaolinite.

    Ray L. Frost;Éva Makó;János Kristóf;Erzsébet Horváth

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray L. Frost
Ray L. Frost Queensland University of Technology
Wayde N. Martens
Wayde N. Martens Queensland University of Technology
Janos Kristof
Janos Kristof University of Pannonia
Hongping He
Hongping He Chinese Academy of Sciences
Serge Kokot
Serge Kokot Queensland University of Technology
Yunfei Xi
Yunfei Xi Queensland University of Technology
Peng Yuan
Peng Yuan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Vicente Rives
Vicente Rives University of Salamanca
Howell G. M. Edwards
Howell G. M. Edwards University of Bradford
Kazumichi Yanagisawa
Kazumichi Yanagisawa Kōchi University

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