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  • 1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering/State Key Laboratory Incubation Base for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832000, Xinjiang, PR China; Institute of Food Science and Technology, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Urumqi 830091, Xinjiang, PR China.

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