About the Authors

Khairulazhar Jumbri

Current address: Centre of Research in Ionic Liquids, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Mohd Fahruddin Al-Haniff Rozy

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Siti Efliza Ashari

ctefliza@upm.edu.my

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Rosfarizan Mohamad

Affiliation Department of Technology Bioprocess, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Mahiran Basri

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Hamid Reza Fard Masoumi

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEA RM MB. Performed the experiments: KJ MFAHR SEA. Analyzed the data: KJ SEA HRFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SEA RM MB HRFM. Wrote the paper: KJ MFAHR SEA RM MB HRFM.