Acknowledgement
Anirudh Kumar acknowledges the CSIR-SRF (08/096-0012/2020/EMR-I) provided for the Ph.D. dissertation work. Vikas Kumar acknowledges the Centre of Excellence Project to provide the Research Associate fellowship. Sanjeev K. Sharma (SKS) acknowledges the financial support from the Department of Higher Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh, India for sanctioning the projects (108/2021/2585/Sattar-4-2021-4(28)/2021/20) under the Research & Development program and (78/2022/1984/Sattar-4-2022-003-70-4099/7/022/19) under Centre of Excellence for Research and innovation of smart materials for Sensor applications. SKS also acknowledges the financial support from the sanctioned project, CST/D-1524, by CST-UP, and C.C.S. University-funded project (Ref. No. Dev./1043/29.06.2022) to implement research and innovation. Ashish R. Sharma: This study was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2020R1C1C1008694).
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