About the Authors

Chut-Ngeow Yee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yeechut@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

C. H. Raymond Ooi

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Luck-Pheng Tan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Prime Oleochemicals Industries Sdn. Bhd., Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Misni Misran

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nyiak-Tao Tang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

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