This study is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51101035 and No. 51106023) and the Nature Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK2011255). The authors thank Prof.Yufu Liu for commenting on the text, and Prof. Haibo Huang, Prof. Fan Li for offering help in ESEM observations.
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