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Jae-Hwang Lee1, Phillip E Loya2, Jun Lou2

  • 1Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. leejh@umass.edu elt@rice.edu.

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