Judul: Superabsorben hasil pencangkokan dan penautan-silang fraksi nonpati onggok dengan akrilamida
Abstrak: Carbohydrates of onggok consist mostly of starch and cellulose fractions. Both fractions have high potential for modification to a superabsorbent. Onggok with Ammonium persulfate serves as an initiator, acrylamide serves as a monomer, and N,N-methylenebisacrylamide as a cross-linker. Onggok was activated using 60% H2SO4 at 60 oC for 1 hour and saponified using with 1M NaOH at 90 oC for 2 hours. The best ratio of onggok:water was 1:30, and the optimum temperature was 70 oC for obtaining the highest water absorption capacity. Absorption capacity was of the non-starch fraction, non-starch fraction plus activation, non-starch fraction plus saponification, and non-starch fraction plus activation plus saponification treatments were 25.21, 53.37, 273.3 and 262.07 g/g, respectively. The effect of activation treatment was not significant, while that of saponification increased significantly its absorption capacity. Scanning electron microscopy micrograph of non-starch fraction showed that starch granules were disappeared by HCl hydrolysis treatment. It indicated that the process hydrolysis succeeded. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy spectrum showed a new peak at wave number of 1600 cm-1 that indicated an amide group, meaning that the grafting cross-linking process was succeeded and at 3300 cm-1 showed a sharp absorption peak that indicated the activation treatment was succeeded as well.
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Judul: Sintesis superabsorben melalui kopolimerisasi pencangkokan dan penautan silang onggok dengan akrilamida
Abstrak: Solid wastes of tapioca is known as onggok. This study is aiming to see a possibility to increase the value of onggok by transforming it into a superabsorbent polymer through grafting cross-linking copolymerization of acrylamide as a monomer, N,N’-methylenebisacrylamide as a cross-linker, and ammonium persulfate as an initiator. Onggok was used as a backbone in grafting and cross-linking copolymerization. The copolymerization was conducted at 70oC for 3 hours and the copolymer was saponified with NaOH 1M for 2 hours. Water absorbency capacity of the saponified copolymer as well as unsaponified copolymer thereafter were measured. The saponified copolymer showed significant difference in absorbency capacity, i.e. 28.92 g/g and 1040.08 g/g, for unsaponified and saponified copolymer, repectively. This was obtained from copolymer composed of 25% onggok, 75% acrylamide, 25 mg N,N’-methylenebisacrylamide, and 250 mg ammonium persulfate. The occurrence of grafting cross-linking copolymer was confirmed by fourier transformed infrared spectra, where it was found to exhibit all characteristic bands of both polysaccharide fractions of onggok and acrylamides units.
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Judul: Etno-ornitologi Burung Kancilan Flores (Pachycephala nudigula nudigula Hartert 1897) pada Masyarakat Lio di Taman Nasional Kelimutu
Abstrak: Bare-throathed whistler is one of several wild birds in Kelimutu National Park (TNKL) that is believed to have correlation with Lio Community‟s belief. The estimation of Bare-throated whistler‟s population in Kelimutu National Park was about 186.41-1668.07 individual by the density about 0.0389-0.3481 ind/ha with the sex ratio 6.2:1 that spreaded on area with height of 1100 – 1600 masl. The characteristic of Bare-throated whistler‟s habitat is a natural forest with various canopy level, high plant species diversity and high density. The habitat characteristics related to the availability of food in the form of insects, cover, safety and a nesting site. Generally the most of Lio community knew the existence of Bare-throated whistler directly or from their parents‟ stories. The perceptions of Lio Community to the Bare-throated whistler‟s existence is generally support the conservation efforts. The perceptions construct the Lio Community‟s atitude that tend to be conservative to the existence of Bare-throated whistler. The attitude shown by their behavior that not cathing the Bare-throated whistler from the TNKL‟s area or the outside. The attitude have an important role to the existence of Bare-throated whistler in Kelimutu National Park‟s area.
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