Dynamic mechanical properties of oil palm nano filler/kenaf/epoxy hybrid nanocomposites

•Effect of oil palm nano filler on DMA of epoxy hybrid nanocomposites were made.•Tg and shapes of cole-cole plot of kenaf/epoxy and hybrid nanocomposites evaluated.•Comparative DMA study of oil palm nano filler, MMT and OMMT hybrid nanocomposites.•Considerable improvement in dynamic properties observed for nano OPEFB hybrid. Epoxy based hybrid nanocomposites was prepared by dispersing the different nano fillers -nano oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) filler, MMT, and OMMT at 3% loading through high speed mechanical stirrer followed by hand lay-up technique. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), in terms of storage modulus (E′), loss modulus (E″), Tan delta (δ) and glass transition temperature (Tg) as a function of temperature were carried out. Overall results indicated that E′, E″ and Tg increased considerably by incorporating nano OPEFB filler, MMT and OMMT nanoclay into the kenaf/epoxy composites. Nano OPEFB/kenaf/epoxy hybrid nanocomposites displayed comparable properties to MMT/kenaf/epoxy but less than OMMT/kenaf/epoxy hybrid nanocomposites.