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phous state, however, persistently decrease with the in-
creasing of fumigation time in the dichloromethane va-
por until 190 s and then almost unchangeable (Figure S5
in SI). We speculated that the formation of the regular
aggregation induced by dichloromethane vapor is very
slow or difficult due to the steric hindrance induced by
alkyl group.
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Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.
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