Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84540-y, published online 03 March 2021


The original version of this Article contained errors.


Affiliation 2 was incorrectly given as ‘Department of Chemistry, Science College, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia’. Additionally, an affiliation was omitted for both Sayed M. Saleh and Reham Ali. The correct affiliations are listed below:


Affiliation 1:

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 16722, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia

Dina F. Katowah & Gharam I. Mohammed


Affiliation 2:

Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Qassim University, Buraidah, 51452, Saudi Arabia.

Sayed M. Saleh & Reham Ali


Affiliation 3:

Chemistry Branch, Department of Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, 43721, Suez, Egypt.

Sayed M. Saleh


Affiliation 4:

Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Sara A. Alqarni


Affiliation 5:

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Suez University, 43518 Suez, Egypt

Reham Ali


Affiliation 6:

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

Mahmoud A. Hussein


Affiliation 7:

Polymer Chemistry Lab, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, 71516, Egypt

Mahmoud A. Hussein


The original Article has been corrected.