Effects of cashew nutshell biofillers on the mechanical and thermal behaviour of Basalt/Hibiscus vitifolius hybrid fabrics reinforced polymer biocomposites.

Basalt-based natural fiber hybrid composites with fillers are always the most anticipated composite material candidates for lightweight structural applications. Current work focusses on the preparation, characterization and testing of Basalt (B)/Hibiscus vitifolius (HV) based epoxy biocomposites with and without cashew nutshell fillers. Individual fiber reinforced composites (with 40 vol% of fibers) and hybrid composites (with 40 vol% of fibers in the ratio 1:1) filled with 10-30 vol% of fillers were manufactured using compression moulding techniques.

Characterization of new cellulose fiber extracted from second generation Bitter Albizia tree.

The present work examines the physical, thermal tensile, and chemical properties of wood skin fibers obtained from second generation Bitter Albizia (BA) tree skin. Chemical characterization of BA fibers showed the presence of various chemical contents such as cellulose of 74.89 wt.

Partial purification and characterization of exoinulinase produced from sp.

Inulinase are industrial food enzymes which have gained much attention in recent scenario. In this study, Inulinase producing eight bacterial colonies were isolated and screened from three different plant root tubers soil sample. Among 8 inulinase producing colonies, the higher yielding colony was selected with 25.

Simultaneous Extraction Optimization and Analysis of Flavonoids from the Flowers of Tabernaemontana heyneana by High Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Diode Array Detector and Electron Spray Ionization/Mass Spectrometry.

Flavonoids are exploited as antioxidants, antimicrobial, antithrombogenic, antiviral, and antihypercholesterolemic agents. Normally, conventional extraction techniques like soxhlet or shake flask methods provide low yield of flavonoids with structural loss, and thereby, these techniques may be considered as inefficient. In this regard, an attempt was made to optimize the flavonoid extraction using orthogonal design of experiment and subsequent structural elucidation by high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detector-electron spray ionization/mass spectrometry (HPLC-DAD-ESI/MS) techniques.