THE PERFORMANCE OF GRAPHITE/N-GRAPHENE AND GRAPHENE/N-GRAPHENE AS ELECTRODE IN PRIMARY CELL BATTERIES

Research about the performance of Graphite/N-Graphene and Graphene/N-Graphene as the cathode of primary used modified Hummers and impregnation methods was carried out. Characterization of materials was characterized by using XRD, FTIR, SEM-EDX and Conductometry, respectively. XRD data show that N atoms were well be deposited on Graphene to form N-Graphene, it was indicated by the weak peak was appear at 2θ = 26.16o. This data was consistent with EDX data where N atoms existed on N-Graphene (2.72 %). FTIR data broad definitely confirm that there is an interaction between C and N (peak at 1396 cm-1). The conductivity data showed that N-Graphene has higher conductivity value (1157.32 μS/cm). Meanwhile, the conductivity of Graphite/N-Graphene (1:2) is higher (350.20 μS/cm) compared to the Graphite/N-Graphene (2:1) (102.70 μS/cm) and conductivity of Graphene/NGraphene (1:2) is higher (969.33 μS/cm) compared to the Graphene/N-Graphene (2:1) (878.18 μS/cm). All data prove that N-Graphene may increase the performance of Graphite/N-Graphene and Graphene/N-Graphene on cathode’s primary battery.