Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48722-0, published online 15 December 2023

The Acknowledgements section in the original version of this Article contained errors. The corrected Acknowledgements section now reads:

“S.M.S.N. Shikh Zahari acknowledges the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia (MOHE) for the research fund under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme for Research Acculturation of Early Career Researcher (FRGS-RACER) with reference number RACER/1/2019/TK05/USIM//1. He also wishes to acknowledge MOHE and Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) for the scholarship (KPT(BS)860407) to pursue postdoctoral research fellow at Imperial College London, UK. All authors would like to thank Dr. Roberto Rinaldi from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, for granting access to GPC instrument in his laboratory. They also acknowledge Mr. Danny Ho of Eureka Synergy Biomass Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia for supplying OPEFB pellets.”

The original Article has been corrected.