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The natural biodegradable wastes are recycled and developed with new-class composite materials to obtain desirable thermo-mechanical properties with zero toxic environments and maintain the environment’s sustainability and eco-systems. The research aim is to synthesize the silica nanoparticles from biowaste cow dung ash through the sol-gel route and to prepare biodegradable epoxy composites with 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 wt.% of silica nanoparticles blended epoxy resin to lay the jute fibre mat, which has four layers with a thickness of 0.5 mm. The fabricated composite samples were subjected to mechanical, dynamic, thermal, and microstructural characteristic studies. The observation results found that the sample 5 composite contained 8 wt.% of silica performed high flexural and sample 4 showed the maximum impact strength 98 ± 1.05 MPa and 2.9 ± 0.071 J, respectively. The dynamic mechanical analysis of 6 wt% composite samples 4 offered a good dynamical storage modulus of 40.1 ± 0.34 GPa. The experimental result observation found that the composite sample 5 with increased weight percentages of silica nanoparticles showed enhanced thermal stability. The SEM results revealed that the silica nanoparticle was identical and distributed uniformly.
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R. Venkatesh, M.K.V. Karthikeyan, R. Sasikumar: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing, Data curation; C.B. Priya, N. Karthikeyan, S. Madhu: Investigation, Visualization, Supervision, review and editing.
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Venkatesh, R., Karthikeyan, M.K.V., Sasikumar, R. et al. Effective utilization of silica from waste cow dung ash filler reinforced biodegradable jute epoxy composites: influence of silica on its mechanical properties. Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-023-04505-1
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