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Saami Ahmed Department of Chemistry, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Zeenat Arif Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
B.S. Bhau Department of Botany, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Swati Chaudhary Department of Applied Sciences, MSIT, GGSIP University, New Delhi, India
Meenakshi Chaurasia Department of Botany, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Sunil Dhar Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Kajol Goria Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Ankita Gupta Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
R.N. Jadejaa Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
S. Jayakumar Environmental Informatics and Spatial Modelling Lab (EISML), Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, Puducherry, India
Jayant Karwadiya Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Mahima Kaushik Nano‐bioconjugate Chemistry Lab, Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Richa Kothari Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Agam Kumar Environmental Informatics and Spatial Modelling Lab (EISML), Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, Puducherry, India
Lawrence Kumar Department of Nanoscience and Technology, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Mohan Kumar Department of Chemistry, Shri Varshney College, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Pawan Kumar Department of Physics, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India
Pradeep Kumar Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Ravishankar Kumar Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India
Kavita Kumari Department of Nanoscience and Technology, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Avinash K. Kushwaha Department of Botany, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Pradeep Kumar Mishra Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Virendra Kumar Mishra Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sunil Mittal Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India
Indica Mohan Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, IndiaAnam Naheed Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Supriya Nath Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Ramesh Oraon Department of Nanoscience and Technology, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Kajal Patel Department of Botany, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Sanjeet Kumar Paswan Department of Nanoscience and Technology, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Deepak Pathania Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, India
K.S. Rao Department of Botany, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Krishna Rawat School of Environment and Sustainable Development, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Prafulla Kumar Sahoo Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India
M. Sathya Environmental Informatics and Spatial Modelling Lab (EISML), Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, Puducherry, India
Naresh Kumar Sethy Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Shashikant Shivaji Vhatkar Department of Nanoscience and Technology, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
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