Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the financial funding from their sponsors, the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), the Govan Mbeki Research and Development Centre (GMRDC) of the University of Fort Hare and the Sasol Inzalo Foundation. The authors would also like to acknowledge the DST/CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre, National Centre for Nanostructured Materials, CSIR, and Centre of Image analysis and the University of Cape Town for the characterization of the ZnO NPs.

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