**Author details**

Tuğba Isık1 , Mohamed Elhousseini Hilal<sup>2</sup> and Nesrin Horzum3 \*

1 Materials Science and Engineering Department, İzmir Institute of Technology, Turkey

2 State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, China

3 Department of Engineering Sciences, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey

\*Address all correspondence to: nesrin.horzum.polat@ikc.edu.tr

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