Aktivitas Antioksidan Zeolit Alam Terpilar-TiO2

Abstract

Utilization of zeolite in Indonesia is still limited. However, in the field of agriculture and environmental processing technology, zeolites are widely known as reliable adsorbent materials. This study aimed to determine the antioxidant activity of TiO2-pillared zeolite by using 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhidrazyl. The natural zeolites were activated with variation of acid concentration and heating temperature. The pillarization product of the best activated zeolite were characterized by X-ray diffractometer (XRD) and scanning electron microscope (SEM-EDX). The antioxidant activity of natural zeolite increased after being pillared with TiO2. XRD diffractogram showed that Sukabumi’s natural zeolite was a mixture of clinoptilolite and mordenite types with 53.03% crystallinity, whereas the SEM-EDX result showed that the composition of TiO2 increased 13.82% in zeolite activated at 400 oC and 4.34% in zeolite activated with 2.0 M acid concentration. These increase promoted the antioxidant activity of 14.80% and 6.17%, respectively.