**Author details**

Jin-gang Liu\* , Yuan-zheng Guo, Hai-xia Yang and Shi-yong Yang

\*Address all correspondence to: liujg@iccas.ac.cn

Laboratory of Advanced Polymer Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China

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