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José Luis Munguía-Guillén1 , José Antonio de los Reyes-Heredia1 , Michel Picquart<sup>2</sup> , Marco Antonio Vera-Ramírez3 and Tomás Viveros-García1 \*

1 Department of Process and Hydraulics Engineering, Basic Sciences and Engineering Division, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México, México

2 Department of Physics, Basic Sciences and Engineering Division, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México, México

3 Department of Chemistry, Basic Sciences and Engineering Division, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México, México

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