About the Authors

Vincent Hickl

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vincent.hickl@empa.ch

Affiliations Laboratory for Biointerfaces, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Center for X-ray Analytics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Laboratory for Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Abid Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States of America

René M. Rossi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Bruno F. B. Silva

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory for Biointerfaces, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Center for X-ray Analytics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Laboratory for Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Katharina Maniura-Weber

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Biointerfaces, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.