Acknowledgement
The authors are very grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51578253), the Scientific and Technological Planning Guiding Project of Fujian Province (2020Y0087), the Scientific and Technological Planning Project of Quanzhou City (No. 2018C083R), and the Subsidized Project for Postgraduates' Innovative Fund in Scientific Research of Huaqiao University (No. 18011086004) for the financial support of this work.
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