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My sister is in her final year in the university and she is having issues with her project topic. She don't have materials for the project.
Please kindly help if you have any useful information or materials.
Dept - Chemistry
Topic - Evaluation of Flexural Strength of Mango Fruit Endocarp Powder Reinforced Epoxy Composite
Thanks

slimsy:
My sister is in her final year in the university and she is having issues with her project topic. She don't have materials for the project.
Please kindly help if you have any useful information or materials.
Dept - Chemistry
Topic - Evaluation of Flexural Strength of Mango Fruit Endocarp Powder Reinforced Epoxy Composite
Thanks

She can start by gathering pdf files to study the physico chemical properties of the woody endocarp of mango seed.
I think they are much online.
A good lab can help her carry out a proximate and elemental analysis to determine the constituents of the Endocarp using normal AOAC methods and AAS. If she knows the constituents of the endocarp in terms of fiber, moisture, sugar, and metals, then she can start predicting the possible polymers that will be formed by epoxylating.

After epoxylating, she should analyse again to know the property of the polymer(s) formed, she can then carry out polymeric flexibility, strenght, rigidity, Tg, etc etc tests. These can be done in any standard laboratory.

Tanx@ CHM11