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Roshan Nazir1,2\*, Abhay Prasad3 , Ashish Parihar4 , Mohammed S. Alqahtani5 and Rabbani Syed5

1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

2 Department of Chemistry, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

3 Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

4 Department of Chemistry, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA

5 Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

\*Address all correspondence to: roshanandrabi@gmail.com

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