About the Authors

Dexian Dong

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Baoling Chen

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

P. Chen

p4chen@uwaterloo.ca

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DD PC. Performed the experiments: DD BC. Analyzed the data: DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC. Wrote the paper: DD PC.