About the Authors

Yuanjun Liu

Affiliation School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China

Guoxing Zhu

zhuguoxing@ujs.edu.cn (GZ); aihuayuan@just.edu.cn (AY)

Affiliations School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Jing Yang

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

Aihua Yuan

zhuguoxing@ujs.edu.cn (GZ); aihuayuan@just.edu.cn (AY)

Affiliation School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China

Xiaoping Shen

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJL. Performed the experiments: YJL GXZ JY. Analyzed the data: AHY XPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GXZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: YJL.