SCI papers generally acknowledge the funding support. The template is as follows: The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial supports by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant numbers ********, as well as the Shanghai Discipline Project under project number **

******. If there is anyone you want to thank in particular, and this person is not among the co-authors of the paper ***, you can write: Useful suggestions given by Dr **** of **** University are also acknowledged

I hope it helps, and I hope you will adopt it!

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