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• The mechanical tests were performed according to ASTM D-882 standard test (ASTM, 1992) and the results were analyzed using NEXYGEN Plus software. Polymer composites of rectangular shape of dimension 25 × 100 mm were used for the determination of all mechanical parameters.
• NEXYGEN Plus 2.1. NEXYGEN Plus 1.1. NEXYGENPlus is a powerful material test and data analysis program. It allows the operator to control.
• 40/0783, Nexygen Plus 4 Software. This extraordinary flexible and easy-to-use materials testing software allows the operator to control and monitor all aspects of the system from a single front end, ensuring fast, reliable and powerful testing and data analysis for a variety of test types such as tensile, compression, peeling, tearing, creep.
• Nexygen plus NEXYGENPlus is a flexible, easy to use material testing software that allows operator to control and monitor all aspects of the testing system from a single interface. This software is part of the Lloyd Plus Series Material Testing System which offers the user extensive library of pre-defined test setups based on international.

Data Analysis and Materials Testing Software NEXYGENPlus multi-lingual materials testing software is the hub of the Lloyd Instruments materials testing system. This extraordinarily easy to use and flexible software, allows the operator to control and monitor all aspects of the system from a single front end, ensuring fast, reliable and powerful testing and data analysis for tensile.

In the present generation, nanoparticles of transition metal oxides (TMOs) are the main areas of materials research due to their wide applications in many areas. In spite of these TMOs, zinc oxide nanoparticles are used in numerous applications like UV absorption, antibacterial treatment, and so forth [1–4]. Nowadays, doping of ZnO nanoparticles into a basic polymer matrix shows a very significant role for improving the physical parameters of the composite materials having very unique potential applications in various fields [5–7]. These nanoparticles generally tend to form a complex with the polymer chain and thereby increase the physical parameters of the polymer composites. In recent years, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is used as a basic polymer because of its unique properties such as good chemical stability, biodegradable, eco-friendly, electrical, and optical properties, and hydrophilicity [8, 9]. The significant feature of PVA is its semicrystalline nature that is the presence of both crystalline and amorphous regions causing crystal-amorphous interfacial effects which increases the physical properties. These crystal-amorphous regions are well separated by an intermediate degree of ordering causing the PVA macromolecule to produce numerous crystalline and amorphous phases.

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In this current paper, initially, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles are prepared by precipitation method and then doped into the PVA matrix by coagulation technique to prepare the polymer nanocomposites by utilizing simple solvent casting method. The crystalline and morphological properties were investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), FTIR, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDAX). The information regarding the optical properties and Urbach energies of the films is studied using UV/visible spectroscopy. The mechanical properties were investigated using universal testing machine (UTM).