**Author details**

Shouhei Koyama1 \* and Hiroaki Ishizawa<sup>2</sup>

1 Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan

2 Institute for Fiber Engineering, Shinshu University, Japan

\*Address all correspondence to: shouhei@shinshu-u.ac.jp

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