About the Authors

Yihao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yihao Zhang, Krithika Abiraman, He Li

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Krithika Abiraman

Contributed equally to this work with: Yihao Zhang, Krithika Abiraman, He Li

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

He Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yihao Zhang, Krithika Abiraman, He Li

Affiliation Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

David M. Pierce

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Anastasios V. Tzingounis

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

George Lykotrafitis

george.lykotrafitis@uconn.edu

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GL AVT DMP. Data curation: GL YZ KA. Formal analysis: GL AVT DMP YZ KA HL. Funding acquisition: GL AVT. Investigation: YZ KA HL. Methodology: GL DMP. Project administration: GL AVT. Resources: GL AVT. Software: GL DMP YZ HL. Supervision: GL AVT DMP. Validation: YZ KA DMP GL. Visualization: YZ KA DMP GL. Writing – original draft: GL AVT YZ KA HL. Writing – review & editing: GL AVT DMP YZ KA HL.