This work was supported in part by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (2014A A06A503), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61422 307, 61473269, 61673361, 61673350), the Scientific Research Starting Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars and Ministry of Education of China, the Youth Innovation Promotion Asso- ciation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Youth Top-notch Talent Support Program, the 1000-talent Youth Program, and the Youth Yangtze River Scholarship.
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50779033);the National High Technology Research and Development Program(863 Program)of China(No.2007AA11Z250)
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