About the Authors

Thomas Gorniak

thomas.gorniak@kit.edu

Affiliations Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Analytical Chemistry - Biointerfaces, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Tamas Haraszti

Affiliations Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany

Vasyl M. Garamus

Affiliation Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Zentrum für Material- und Küstenforschung GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany

Andreas R. Buck

Affiliations Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Analytical Chemistry - Biointerfaces, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Tobias Senkbeil

Affiliations Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Marius Priebe

Affiliation Institute for X-Ray Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Adam Hedberg-Buenz

Affiliations Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss, Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Demelza Koehn

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Tim Salditt

Affiliation Institute for X-Ray Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Michael Grunze

Affiliations Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Michael G. Anderson

Affiliations Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss, Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Axel Rosenhahn

Affiliations Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Analytical Chemistry - Biointerfaces, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TG AR TH MG MGA VG. Performed the experiments: TG TH MP TS ARB VG TS AR. Analyzed the data: TG VG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR VG MP TS MGA AH-B DK MG. Wrote the paper: TG MGA AR TH VG MG.