ABSTRACT Petroleum plastics are linked with environmental pollution issues due to their toxic and nonbiodegradable characteristics. Renewable and biodegradable bioplastics in this regard have tremendous potential to substitute petroleum‐based plastics in reducing these environmental problems. The potential of biodegradable nanocomposites for limiting pollution from nonbiodegradable materials has led to extensive research into them. In current work aims to extract nanocellulose from cotton fibre. The extracted nanocellulose was analyzed using FTIR, XRD & SEM. Further to develop and characterize Arrowroot starch/PVA nanocomposite incorporated with nanocellulose using solution casting. The prepared nanocomposite were investigated, such Mechanical, Thermal, Biodegradable, Morphological properties as well as FTIR analysis. Significantly, the nanocomposite's tensile strength increased from 6.61 to 11.21 MPa, respectively, whereas elongation at break was reduced significantly from 158.05 to 32.73% by the loading of 20% of nanocellulose. The thermal stability of nanocomposite were also improved. Despite the loading of nanocellulose improved the biodegradable properties. During the biodegradability evaluation, the reinforcement of nanocellulose in nanocomposite was the only one to sustain the experimental conditions. Therefore, the film composed of 60% starch, 40% PVA and 20% Nanocellulose was the most successful among all the formulations. It demonstrated the excellent mechanical, optical, superior thermal, and effective biodegradable properties. In conclusion, this study is based on giving details of nanocomposite and showing its huge potential for the packaging applications.
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