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Impacts of halloysite clay nanoparticles on the structural and γ-ray shielding properties of the epoxy resin

  • K.G. Mahmoud (Ural Federal University) ;
  • M.I. Sayyed (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Isra University) ;
  • S. Hashim (Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • Aljawhara H. Almuqrin (Department of Physics, College of Science, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University) ;
  • Abu El-Soad A.M (Ural Federal University)
  • Received : 2022.11.15
  • Accepted : 2023.02.09
  • Published : 2023.04.25
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Abstract

In this study, halloysite nanoparticles-doped epoxy resin was synthesised using the casting method. The MH-300A density metre revealed that the density of the fabricated composites changed from 1.132 to 1.317 g/cm3 as the halloysite nanoparticle concentration increased. The Fourier transform infrared was recorded for the synthesised composites. Furthermore, the γ-ray shielding properties of the synthesised composites were evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation and a theoretical programme, XCOM. The linear attenuation coefficient of the epoxy resin increased by 43% (at γ-energy of 15 keV) and 14% (at γ-photon energy of 662 keV) when the concentration of the halloysite nanoparticles was increased from 0 wt% to 40 wt%, respectively.

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Acknowledgement

The authors express their gratitude to the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (PNURSP2023R2), Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. M. I. Sayyed and S. Hashim gratefully acknowledge Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for providing Prominent Visiting Researcher Scheme (RJ3000.7113.3F000) under the Department Deputy of Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) initiatives.

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