Improving carboxymethyl cellulose edible coating using ZnO nanoparticles from irradiated Alternaria tenuissima

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Table 2 Mechanical properties of the prepared films

Film samples	Tensile strength (MPa)	Elongation (%)	Young's modulus (MPa)
CMC (Control)	183.30 ± 0.11^c	13.00 ± 0.21^c	325.34 ± 11.21^c
CMC + 0.5%ZnONPs	203.34 ± 0.32^b	62.50 ± 0.55^b	1410.00 ± 10.34^b
CMC + 1.0%ZnONPs	235.94 ± 0.43^a	83.70 ± 0.37^a	1814.96 ± 12.54^a

Calculated mean is for triplicate measurements from three independent experiments ± SD
^a–cMeans with different superscripts in the same column are considered statistically different (LSD test, P ≤ 0.05)