About the Authors

Liang Xiang

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Kathryn Moncivais

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Faqin Jiang

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Blake Willams

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Lital Alfonta

alfontal@bgu.ac.il (LF); zzhang@scu.edu (ZJZ)

Affiliation Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering, The Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Zhiwen J. Zhang

alfontal@bgu.ac.il (LF); zzhang@scu.edu (ZJZ)

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LX KM ZJZ LA. Performed the experiments: LX KM FJ BW. Analyzed the data: LX ZJZ LA BW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZJZ. Wrote the paper: LX ZJZ LA. Contributed to the revised manuscript: BW.