About the Authors

Sunandan Pakrashi

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India

Nitin Jain

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India

Swayamprava Dalai

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India

Jerobin Jayakumar

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India

Prathna Thanjavur Chandrasekaran

Affiliation Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Ashok M. Raichur

Affiliations Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Department of Chemical Technology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Natarajan Chandrasekaran

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India

Amitava Mukherjee

amit.mookerjea@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP NJ. Performed the experiments: SP NJ SD JJ PTC. Analyzed the data: SP NJ SD JJ PTC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM AMR NC. Wrote the paper: SP NJ SD.