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"Competing interests L.L.L., B.C.L., X.Z., and T.T.T. are inventors on patent 202210551830.8 (in a Preliminary Examination Procedure) related to this work, filed by State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China. The remaining authors declare no competing interests."

"This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China grants 82122011 (to L.L.L.), 81970616 (to L.L.L.), 82030024 (to B.C.L.), 81720108007 (to B.C.L.), and 82200772 (to T.T.T.), and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province grant BK20220828 (to T.T.T.). Author contributions: X.Z. and T.T.T. contributed equally to this work. L.L.L., B.C.L., X.Z., and T.T.T. conceptualized the study; X.Z. and T.T.T. prepared the manuscript; T.T.T., L.L.L., B.C.L., and S.F.Q. edited the manuscript; T.T.T., X.Z., and A.R.S. assembled figures; X.Z., T.T.T., A.R.S., J.Y.C., J.J., C.W., X.X.Z., Y.W., Z.L.L., and B.W. developed experimental strategy and analyzed results; L.L.L. and B.C.L. did project administration and supervision; L.L.L. and B.C.L. provided Funding acquisition."