An increase in the consumption of chicken meat may have an impact on the waste of chicken feathers. Several efforts have been made to treat chicken feather waste, which is difficult to decompose and can pollute the environment. Chicken feathers are biomass with a high keratin content that has the potential to be used as a carbon material. In this study, chicken feathers were used in the chemical exfoliation method to produce reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) material. Chicken feathers are heated in two stages, at temperatures of 250 and 400 ℃ in the air. The exfoliation procedure was carried out with varying concentrations of HCl (0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, and 2 M). The X-ray diffraction spectra revealed that the sample had a rGO type carbon phase, with the crystal size decreasing as the HCl concentration increased. The presence of functional groups C-O, C=C, and C-OH identified as GO/rGO was revealed by FTIR spectra. The HCl exfoliation process reduced the sample's conductivity and capacitance, with the highest values obtained in aquadest sample (GO-0 M), about 10-5 S/m and 10-7 F/m2.
Fe3O4@PEG:ZnO nanocomposites were synthesized by the coprecipitation method with various of the samples were Fe3O4, Fe3O4@ZnO (1:1), Fe3O4@PEG: ZnO (1:2), and Fe3O4@ PEG: ZnO (1:3). The samples were synthesized with variation in the concentration of ZnO to Fe3O4. The concentration ratio of (Fe3O4:ZnO) were (1:1), (1:2), and (1:3). In addition, polyethylene glycol (PEG) is also used to prevent the agglomeration of Fe3O4. Sample characterization was carried out using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), Particle Size Analyzer (PSA), and vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM). The XRD patterns show that the sample is composed of Fe3O4phase and ZnO phase with crystal structure cubic and wurtzite respectively. The TEM image shows the formation of a core-shell structure where PEG: ZnO is the shell and Fe3O4 is the core. From the FTIR results, there are C-O and C-C bonds which indicate the formation of PEG, Fe-O bonds indicate the formation of Fe3O4 and Zn-O bonds indicate the formation of ZnO. Characterization with PSA obtained particle sizes of 33 nm, 23 nm, and 16 nm with particle size distributions of 25%, 50%, and 75% so that the average particle size is 24 nm. The VSM results show that Fe3O4@PEG: ZnO (1:2) nanocomposite has a high magnetic saturation of 66.58 emu/g, with superparamagnetic properties, which has the potential to be developed as a bioimaging material.
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