**Author details**

Mohammad Ashfaq1,2,3\*, Neetu Talreja4 , Divya Chuahan5 and Werayut Srituravanich2,3\*

1 School of Life Science, BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

3 Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

4 Department of Bio-Nanotechnology, Gachon University, South Korea

5 Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of South Florida, Florida, USA

\*Address all correspondence to: mohdashfaqbiotech@gmail.com and werayut.s@chula.ac.th

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