About the Authors

Fernanda Pilaquinga

Contributed equally to this work with: Fernanda Pilaquinga, Bianca Morejón

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

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Department of Exact and Natural Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Bianca Morejón

Contributed equally to this work with: Fernanda Pilaquinga, Bianca Morejón

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

Affiliation Center for Research on Health in Latin America, Department of Exact and Natural Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Danny Ganchala

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Department of Exact and Natural Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Jeroni Morey

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Neus Piña

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Alexis Debut

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador

Marco Neira

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mvneira@puce.edu.ec

Affiliation Center for Research on Health in Latin America, Department of Exact and Natural Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.