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Scheme 2. Scale-up Experiment and Post-functionalization
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The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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This work was supported by the Ministere de l’Education
Nationale, de l’Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche
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(MENESR), and the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS). We gratefully acknowledge the China
Scholarship Council (CSC) for a grant to B.H. We thank G.
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Gontard for the X-ray analysis (Sorbonne Universite, Paris).
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