Jurnal Online Mahasiswa (JOM) Bidang Matematika dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam
Vol 2, No 1 (2015): Wisuda Februari 2015

PEMBUATAN DAN KARAKTERISASI KARBON AKTIF MONOLIT DARI KAYU KARET DENGAN VARIASI KONSENTRASI KOH UNTUK APLIKASI SUPERKAPASITOR

Inrizky Domy Muchammadsam (Unknown)
Erman Taer (Unknown)
Rakhmawati Farma (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Nov 2014

Abstract

Development of monolithic carbon electrodes with a combination of physical and chemical activation  process  can improve  performance of cell supercapacitor.  Monolithic carbon electrodes  were made  from  rubber wood cross-section of the printed form of  pellets, then  were carbonized  at temperature of  600ºC in N2  gas  atmosphere and  followed by physical activation process at 900ºC  for 2 hours in a CO2  gas atmosphere. KOH of  1 and 5 M  and  HNO3  of  25% solutions  were used as  of the chemical activation  in order  to  activate functional groups. Characterization of electrochemical supercapacitor cell utilized  two-electrode  of  cyclic voltammetry with  1 M H2SO4  solution was used as  electrolyte.  Scanning electron microscope and X-ray diffraction were carried out to study  the structure of surface morphology  and  crystalline properties of monolithic carbon electrodes.  Specific  capacitance  for electrodes  1 M KOH and 5 M KOH  was obtained  as high as  71.08 and 115.38 F/g  respectively.  These results indicate that increasing the concentration of KOH can improve the performance of the electrode supercapacitor cells.

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