About the Authors

Tianxiang Su

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Somes K. Das

Affiliation BioNanomatrix Inc, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ming Xiao

Affiliation BioNanomatrix Inc, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Prashant K. Purohit

purohit@seas.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Authors S. K. Das and M. Xiao are employees of the commercial company, BioNanomatrix. They declare competing financial interests in the form of “Ownership of company stocks” and “Paid employment”. T. Su and P. K. Purohit have no affiliations to BioNanomatrix. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the Plos ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS SKD MX PKP. Performed the experiments: SKD MX. Analyzed the data: TS SKD MX PKP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS SKD MX. Wrote the paper: TS SKD MX PKP.