This study is supported by the European Social Fund’s Doctoral Studies and Internationalisation Programme DoRa.The work is part of the ETF Grant Project No.ETF7980 and IUT-34-18 Project.Kerly Kustavus is kindly acknowledged for drawing the chemical structures of plant sterols.Dr.Korbinian Löbmann is kindly acknowledged for providing the Mercury files for the theoretical XRPD pattern calculations.Dr.H.A.Santos acknowledges financial support from the Academy of Finland(Decision No.252215).
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