Agradecimentos: This work was supported by the FAPESP (grants No 2020/10580-8, 2020/12283-0, 2018/11364-7, 2017/10581-1, 2012/04870-7), CAPES and CNPq Brazilian agencies. The authors would like to acknowledge the LNNano, CCSNano-UNICAMP, and LNLS.Work at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was supported by the Los Alamos Laboratory Directed Research and Development program through project 20190076ER Ver menos

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