About the Authors

Peyman Shadmani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

p.shadmani@exeter.ac.uk

Affiliations Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Behzad Mehrafrooz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Computation & Theory of Soft Materials, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Abbas Montazeri

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliations Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, School of Nano-Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran

David M. Richards

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.