Menstrual Cycle in Female Workers

Menstrual disorders are abnormalities that occur in the menstrual cycle. There are various menstrual disorders that women can experience, ranging from too little or too much menstrual blood, painful menstruation, to depression before menstruation or premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Physical activity is divided into three levels, namely light, moderate and heavy physical activity. Physical activity of heavy intensity can cause physiological disorders of the menstrual cycle. Presence of menstruation (amenorrhoea), thinning of the bones (osteoporosis), menstrual irregularities or intermenstrual bleeding, abnormal growth of the uterine wall, and infertility.

Study of Dielectric Properties of Various Graphene/Metal/Polymer Nanocomposites

The aim of the present research work is to synthesize flexible polymer based nanocomposites with excellent dielectric properties. Compounds and composites with high dielectric constant are in demand in electronic industry due to their ability to store more charge, while energy dissipation is low there. So it is needed to synthesize materials with ability to store more and more charge. In presented research work, flexible three phase nanocomposite films of graphene/metal/polymer were synthesized with reasonably high dielectric constant or real part of permittivity and very low dielectric loss or imaginary part of permittivity. Ternary nanocomposite films were synthesized by using three different polymers i.e., poly(vinyl alcohol), polyvinylidene fluoride and polydimethysiloxane as matrix. Graphene and two ceramic metals oxides i.e., titania and barium titanate were reinforced in the polymers as conducting and metal additives, respectively. In this way six different types of ternary nanocomposite films with different combinations of fillers and polymers were synthesized. Each ternary nanocomposite series was synthesized by varying w/w of graphene while keeping concentrations of ceramic and polymer constant. After setting optimized conditions for concentrations of graphene, w/w of ceramic filler was varied and concentrations of ceramic and polymer were kept fixed. Each ternary graphene/metal/polymer nanocomposite film was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, raman spectroscopy, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and thermal gravimetrical analysis to study their morphology, structures, presence of functional groups and thermal stability respectively. Dielectric characterization of each ternary graphene/metal/polymer nanocomposite film was carried out at room temperature. Ternary nanocomposite with highest dielectric constant and lowest dielectric loss were explored for each ternary nanocomposites series. Dielectric constant of poly(vinyl alcohol), Polyvinylidene fluoride and polydimethysiloxane was increased from 13.3, 20.5 and 6.5 to 330, 159.8 and 108.3, respectively, with addition of graphene and titania. While dielectric constant of poly(vinyl alcohol), Polyvinylidene fluoride and polydimethysiloxane was increased from 13.3, 20.5 and 6.5 to 66, 199.9 and 116.9, respectively, with addition of graphene and barium titanate. Even with such high dielectric constant, dielectric loss of all ternary nanocomposites was still very low i.e., less than 5 which is required for energy storage devices. AC conductivity and complex electric modulus of all neat polymers and ternary graphene/metal/polymer nanocomposite films were also calculated and compared. The superiority of this method is that synthesized three phase graphene/ceramic/polymer nanocomposite films have hybrid properties like high dielectric permittivity and low dielectric loss of fillers and flexibility and mechanical strength of polymers. All analyses of graphene/metal/polymer nanocomposite films confirm their excellent capacitive performance. On the basis of results it is concluded that synthesized ternary graphene/metal/polymer nanocomposite films are fairly good candidate to be used as dielectric medium in energy storage devices like capacitors.