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xlink:type="simple"><contrib-id authenticated="false" contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-2619-730X</contrib-id><name name-style="western"><surname>Huang</surname><given-names>Yan Yan Shery</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="affiliation01">1</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="bfac48e6fn1">*</xref><email>yysh2@cam.ac.uk</email></contrib><aff id="affiliation01">
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Department of Engineering, <institution xlink:type="simple">University of Cambridge</institution>, Cambridge, <country>United Kingdom</country>
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               <institution xlink:type="simple">Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge</institution>, Cambridge, <country>United Kingdom</country>
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               <institution xlink:type="simple">The Affiliated Stomatologic Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University</institution>, Hangzhou, <country>People’s Republic of China</country>
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               <label>4</label>
Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, <institution xlink:type="simple">Technical University of Denmark</institution>, Kgs. Lyngby, <country>Denmark</country>
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               <label>5</label>
Department of Mechanical Engineering, <institution xlink:type="simple">Eindhoven University of Technology</institution>, Eindhoven, <country>The Netherlands</country>
            </aff></contrib-group><author-notes><fn id="bfac48e6fn1"><label>6</label><p>Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed.</p></fn></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>01</day><month>4</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>25</day><month>1</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="open-access"><day>25</day><month>1</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>14</volume><issue>2</issue><elocation-id content-type="artnum">024102</elocation-id><supplementary-material content-type="colour-figures" orientation="portrait" position="float" xlink:type="simple"/><supplementary-material content-type="suppdata" id="bfac48e6supp1" orientation="portrait" position="float" xlink:href="https://cfn-live-content-bucket-iop-org.s3.amazonaws.com/journals/1758-5090/14/2/024102/revision2/bfac48e6supp1.avi?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAYDKQL6LTV7YY2HIK&amp;Expires=1643731405&amp;Signature=cumCN3ye9cbnlpMXAwXeeYD%2BFyc%3D" 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