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María Luisa García-Betancourt1 \*, Sandra I. Ramírez Jiménez1 , Apsahara González-Hodges1 , Zandra E. Nuñez Salazar1 , Ismailia Leilani Escalante-García2 and Jeannete Ramírez Aparicio3

1 Center of Chemical Research, IICBA, Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico

2 Department of Chemical Sciences, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico

3 CONACYT - National Institute of Electricity and Clean Energies, Cuernavaca, Mexico

\*Address all correspondence to: mluisa.garcia@uaem.mx

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