About the Authors

Aminul Islam

aminul@upm.edu.my (AI); taufiq@upm.edu.my (YHTY)

Affiliations Catalysis and Science Research Center, Faculty of Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Siow Hwa Teo

Affiliations Catalysis and Science Research Center, Faculty of Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

M. Aminur Rahman

Affiliation Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Yun Hin Taufiq-Yap

aminul@upm.edu.my (AI); taufiq@upm.edu.my (YHTY)

Affiliations Catalysis and Science Research Center, Faculty of Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AI. Performed the experiments: SHT AI. Analyzed the data: AI SHT YHTY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAR AI SHT YHTY. Wrote the paper: MAR.