The scientific community maintains considerable interest in polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) based on metal oxide nanocomposites due to its ability to combine both polymers and dopants with their properties. [1-15] These polymers have many applications in medical and engineering technology because of their mechanical, electrical, and optical properties. [16,17] ZnO-based polymeric nanocomposite materials have attracted scientific attention because of their transparency, high electron mobility, wide bandgap (3.2 eV, at 300 K [18,19]), and electrical properties. The insertion of ZnO nanoparticles into PVA matrices, in general, may significantly change their electric, mechanical, and optical characteristics. [1,7,8,15] PVA is readily water-soluble, and as such has many uses in the fields of polymer processing, pharmacy, and biomedicine. [20-23] Shanshool et al. [7] have studied the optical properties of various composites that use ZnO nanoparticles as a filler material in different polymer matrices, such as poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF), PVA, and polystyrene (PS). ZnO nanoparticles have been found to have an effect on the bandgap of each polymer matrix, depending on the polymer's nature. The structural, optical, and dielectric properties of ZnOreinforced poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) blended with poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) have been previously studied by Choudhary. [13] It was noted that the enhanced optical properties of obtained nanocomposite films confirm the suitability of these materials for use in optical sensors. Moreover, Selvi et al. [1] synthesized ZnO nanoparticles with the co-precipitation method and reinforced a PVA matrix to investigate the optical and electrical properties of the resultant polymer composite films. However, the linear optical parameters, such as the refractive
