About the Authors

Weihua Guo

Affiliation Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States of America

Yingying Chen

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States of America

Na Wei

nwei@nd.edu (NW); xueyang@vt.edu (XF)

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States of America

Xueyang Feng

nwei@nd.edu (NW); xueyang@vt.edu (XF)

Affiliation Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XF NW. Methodology: WG YC NW XF. Writing - original draft: WG YC. Writing - review & editing: WG YC NW XF.