doi: 10.1557/jmr.2012.375, Published by Materials Research Society with Cambridge University Press, 5 December 2012.

In Xiao et al.^{Reference Xiao, Luo, Wei, Zhang, Huang, Chen, Cai, Rui and Mohamed1}, it should be noted that the authors Wei Xiao and Shi-Hua Luo contributed equally to the work.

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