About the Authors

Binwu Zhao

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Martien A. Cohen Stuart

Affiliation Laboratory of Physical Chemistry & Colloid Science, Wageningen University, NL, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Carol K. Hall

hall@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BZ MACS CKH. Data curation: BZ. Formal analysis: BZ. Funding acquisition: MACS CKH. Investigation: BZ. Methodology: BZ. Project administration: BZ CKH. Resources: CKH. Software: BZ. Supervision: CKH. Validation: BZ CKH. Visualization: BZ. Writing – original draft: BZ. Writing – review & editing: BZ MACS CKH.