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Sathya Narayan Kanakaraj1 , Paa Kwasi Adusei1 , Yu-Yun Hsieh1 , Yanbo Fang1 , Noe Alvarez3 and Vesselin Shanov1,2\*

1 Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

2 Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA

3 Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA

\*Address all correspondence to: vesselin.shanov@uc.edu

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