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Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the colleagues at the EMMS Group for their long term cooperation and contribution previously on the EMMS model and now on mesoscience. Sincere thanks should be extended to Profs. Ying Hu, Xiaoye Cao, and Jiaofeng Pan for their reading the first draft in Chinese and giving suggestions, to Profs. Zhongxian Zhao, Zhizhen Wang, Jianzhong Xu, Yuntai Chen, and Wei Li for their time and discussion at a group discussion on the draft. Specially, I would like to thank Mr. Zhengyu Wang, Mr. Yan Zhuang, Ms. Kai Feng, and Drs. Wenlai Huang, Xiaowei Wang, and Jian Wang for their help in English and figures. Particularly, the author would thank Dr. Angela Welch for polishing English. The financial support of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (91334000) on the mesoscience program, entitled “Mechanism and Manipulation at Mesoscales of Multiphase Reaction Systems,” is highly appreciated.