Chien-Hsueh Shih¹, Carl C. Gryte¹ and Liao-Ping Cheng This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.^2,3

¹Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A.
²Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan, 251, R.O.C.
³Energy and Opto-Electronic Materials Research Center, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan, 251, R.O.C.

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