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Acknowledgments

Financial support for this work was provided by “AIProcMat@N2020—Advanced Industrial
Processes and Materials for a Sustainable Northern Region of Portugal 2020,” with the refer-
ence NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000006, supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational
Programme (NORTE 2020), under the Portugal 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006984,
Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM funded by ERDF through COMPETE2020—Programa
Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI); and by national funds through
FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. LMPM, SMT, and AMTS acknowledge the FCT
Investigator Programme (IF/01248/2014, IF/00573/2015, and IF/01501/2013, respectively) with
financing from the European Social Fund and the Human Potential Operational Programme.
LMPM also acknowledges the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO)
for a Ramon y Cajal research contract (RYC-2016-19347).

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