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| Name: |
Prof. Ray Frost |
| Position: |
Professor |
| Qualifications: |
PhD.,DSc.,MSc.,BSc.,bEd |
| Organisational Area: |
School of Physical & Chemical Sciences |
| Teaching Discipline: |
Chemistry |
| Research Program: |
Inorganic Materials |
| Phone: |
+61 7 3138 2407 |
| Email: |
r.frost@qut.edu.au |
| Postal Address: |
School of Physical & Chemical Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001 |
Teaching Areas
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Areas of Expertise
- Surface science
- Spectroscopy
- Nanochemistry
- Mineral science
- Soil chemistry
[Further expertise and media contact]
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Professional Associations
- Royal Australian Chemical Society
- American Clay mineral society
- Clay Mineral society
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Selected Research Projects
- Water purification
- Oil spill mop up
- New materials for drug delivery
- Nanofibres and nanotubes of alumina/boehmite
- Organoclays for adsorption of water impurities
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Selected Publications
- Xi, Y., L. Frost Ray, and H. He, Modification of the surfaces of Wyoming montmorillonite by the cationic surfactants alkyl trimethyl, dialkyl dimethyl, and trialkyl methyl ammonium bromides. Journal of colloid and interface science, 2007. 305(1): p. 150-8
- Carmody, O., R. Frost, Y. Xi, and S. Kokot, Adsorption of hydrocarbons on organo-clays-Implications for oil spill remediation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2007. 305(1): p. 17-24
- Zhou, Q., R.L. Frost, H. He, and Y. Xi, Changes in the surfaces of adsorbed para-nitrophenol on HDTMA organoclay-the XRD and TG study. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2007. 307(1): p. 50-55
- Zhao, Y., N. Martens Wayde, E. Bostrom Thor, Y. Zhu Huai, and L. Frost Ray, Synthesis, characterization, and surface properties of iron-doped boehmite nanofibers. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 2007. 23(4): p. 2110-6
- Frost, R.L., A Raman spectroscopic study of selected minerals of the rosasite group. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2006. 37(9): p. 910-921
[Additional Publications]
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Current Postgraduate Students
| Name |
Project |
| Lisa Daniel |
Titania for photocatalysts |
| Matt Hales (with Theo Kloprogge) |
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| Dana Morgan |
titania nanofibres (with Eric Waclawik) |
| Matt Weier |
Uranyl secondary minerals and theuir structure |
| Qin Zhao |
organoclays (with Hongping He) |
| Yanyan Zhou |
alumina nanofibres |
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