About the Authors

Rahulkumar Maurya

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Tonmoy Ghosh

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Chetan Paliwal

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Anupama Shrivastav

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Bioenergy Engineering Research Laboratory, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, KAIST, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Kaumeel Chokshi

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Imran Pancha

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Arup Ghosh

Affiliations Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Discipline of Wasteland Research, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Sandhya Mishra

smishra@csmcri.org

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM AG SM. Performed the experiments: RM TG CP AS KC. Analyzed the data: RM IP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM TG CP AS KC IP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RM TG CP.