**Author details**

Devinder Singh1 \* and Sven Hovmöller2

1 Amity School of Applied Sciences, Amity University**,** Lucknow, UP**,** India

2 Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

\*Address all correspondence to: dsingh2@lko.amity.edu

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