About the Authors

Xin Jin

Affiliation Functional Nanomaterials, Institute for Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Mao Deng

Affiliation Synthesis and Real Structures, Institute for Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Sören Kaps

Affiliation Functional Nanomaterials, Institute for Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Xinwei Zhu

Affiliation Functional Nanomaterials, Institute for Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Iris Hölken

Affiliation Functional Nanomaterials, Institute for Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Kristin Mess

Affiliation Functional Nanomaterials, Institute for Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Rainer Adelung

Affiliation Functional Nanomaterials, Institute for Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Yogendra Kumar Mishra

ykm@tf.uni-kiel.de

Affiliation Functional Nanomaterials, Institute for Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XJ YKM RA. Performed the experiments: XJ MD SK XZ IH KM YKM. Analyzed the data: XJ SK RA YKM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RA. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: XJ RA YKM.