About the Authors

Alessandra Apicella

Affiliations Energy Department and NEMAS – Center for NanoEngineered Materials and Surfaces, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Département Science et Génie des Matériaux Laboratoire de technologie des composites et polymères (LTC), Lausanne, Switzerland

Monica Soncini

monica.soncini@polimi.it (MS); mariaelena.regonesi@unimib.it (MER)

Affiliation Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Marco Agostino Deriu

Affiliation Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

Antonino Natalello

Affiliation Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Marcella Bonanomi

Affiliation Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

David Dellasega

Affiliation Energy Department and NEMAS – Center for NanoEngineered Materials and Surfaces, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Paolo Tortora

Affiliation Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Maria Elena Regonesi

monica.soncini@polimi.it (MS); mariaelena.regonesi@unimib.it (MER)

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods (DiSMeQ), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Carlo Spartaco Casari

Affiliations Energy Department and NEMAS – Center for NanoEngineered Materials and Surfaces, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, Center for Nano Science and Technology @Polimi, Italian Institute of Technology, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MER CSC MS. Performed the experiments: AA MS MAD AN DD MB. Analyzed the data: CSC MS MER PT AA MAD AN MB. Wrote the paper: AA CSC MS AN MER PT.