About the Authors

Ming-Show Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Show Wong, Der-Shan Sun

Affiliations Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, Nanotechnology Research Center, National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

Der-Shan Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Show Wong, Der-Shan Sun

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China

Hsin-Hou Chang

hhchang@mail.tcu.edu.tw

Affiliations Nanotechnology Research Center, National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, Department of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China, Tzu-Chi University Center for Vascular Medicine, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSW DSS HHC. Performed the experiments: MSW HHC. Analyzed the data: MSW DSS HHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSW. Wrote the paper: HHC.