**Author details**

Dengke Yang1,2\*, Jiangting Wang<sup>2</sup> , Huimin Yang<sup>3</sup> and Peter Hodgson<sup>2</sup>

\*Address all correspondence to: dkyang@issp.ac.cn

1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Anhui, China

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