About the Authors

Elizabeth A. McNally

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Henry P. Schwarcz

schwarcz@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Gianluigi A. Botton

Affiliations Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

A. Larry Arsenault

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAM HPS GB. Performed the experiments: EAM. Analyzed the data: EAM HPS GB ALA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB HPS. Wrote the paper: EAM HPS GB ALA.