About the Authors

Xue Guo

Affiliations School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China

Huaqun Yin

Affiliations School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China

Yili Liang

Affiliations School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China

Qi Hu

Affiliations School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China

Xishu Zhou

Affiliations School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China

Yunhua Xiao

Affiliation School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China

Liyuan Ma

Affiliation School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China

Xian Zhang

Affiliation School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China

Guanzhou Qiu

Affiliations School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China

Xueduan Liu

xueduanliu@yahoo.com

Affiliations School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL HY GQ. Performed the experiments: XG YL QH YX LM X.Zhang. Analyzed the data: XG QH X.Zhou. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XG QH. Wrote the paper: XG.