About the Authors

Safdar Abbas Kazmi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Saqib Khan

Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan, Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SCEE), National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Bilal

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Arshad

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SCEE), National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Rizwana Sarwar

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Nfor Elvis Nfor

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Faisal Javed

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Swabi, KPK, Pakistan

S. Tasqeeruddin

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Ajmal Khan

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Birkat Al Mauz, Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Ahson Jabbar Shaikh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Ahmed Al-Harrasi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

aharrasi@unizwa.edu.om (AH); nadiariazz@gmail.com (NR)

Affiliation Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Birkat Al Mauz, Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman

Nadia Riaz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

aharrasi@unizwa.edu.om (AH); nadiariazz@gmail.com (NR)

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.