Synthesis and Characterization of Nanomaterial Based Polymeric Thin Films for Agriculture with Climatic Control

Abstract

Agriculture production is mainly dependent upon the climate and atmospheric condition variations. A small variation in atmospheric condition has large precursion on agriculture production. Whereas daily temperature variation upto 10 can be observed in several parts of India. This variation can affect crop production adversely. Hence, formation and optimization of polycarbonate based polyhouse is investigated in this work. Further, it was observed that the materials and properties of polysheet would affect temperature and other condition of polyhouse. In current work, the material optimization was investigated and observed that an introduction of UV active nanomaterials provides better climatic control of polycarbonate based polyhouse. Applications of ZnO or TiO2 enhance the absorbance of UV rays from sunlight and resulted in large control on greenhouse environment. This helps to provide enhanced control on greenhouse conditions. The effect of presence of polycarbonate with 0.3% TiO2 50 μ showed 13.8 ºC enhancement in temperature control, which makes it highly beneficial for agriculture applications.