About the Authors

Alexis de Ghellinck

Affiliations Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France, Service des polymères, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Hubert Schaller

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Valérie Laux

Affiliation Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

Michael Haertlein

Affiliation Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

Michele Sferrazza

Affiliation Service des polymères, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Eric Maréchal

Affiliation Laboratoire de physiologie cellulaire et végétale, CNRS/CEA/Univ. Grenoble Alpes/INRA, Grenoble, France

Hanna Wacklin

Affiliations European Spallation Source ESS AB, Lund, Sweden, Chemistry Department, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Juliette Jouhet

juliette.jouhet@cea.fr

Affiliation Laboratoire de physiologie cellulaire et végétale, CNRS/CEA/Univ. Grenoble Alpes/INRA, Grenoble, France

Giovanna Fragneto

Affiliation Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interest: Hanna Wacklin is employed by the European Spallation Source ESS AB. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AdG MH JJ HPW GF. Performed the experiments: AdG HS VL JJ. Analyzed the data: AdG HS VL JJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GF MH EM. Wrote the paper: AdG HPW GF JJ. Official supervisor of first author: MS.