About the Authors

Weihua Wu

Affiliation Biomass Science & Conversion Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

William Tran

Affiliation Biomass Science & Conversion Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Craig A. Taatjes

Affiliation Combustion Chemistry Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Taek Soon Lee

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

John M. Gladden

jmgladden@lbl.gov; jmgladd@sandia.gov

Affiliations Biomass Science & Conversion Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Several authors are funded by Sandia National Laboratory, a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Agency under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG WW. Performed the experiments: WW WT. Analyzed the data: WW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WW. Wrote the paper: CT JA TL JG WW.