About the Authors

Alfonso Reina

Contributed equally to this work with: Alfonso Reina, Anand Bala Subramaniam

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anand Bala Subramaniam

Contributed equally to this work with: Alfonso Reina, Anand Bala Subramaniam

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna Laromaine

Current address: Institut Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Spain

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aravinthan D. T. Samuel

Affiliation Department of Physics and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

George M. Whitesides

gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

This work was funded by a grant from Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. However, this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all of PLOS ONE's policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ABS AR GMW. Performed the experiments: AR ABS AL. Analyzed the data: ABS AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR ABS ADTS AL GMW. Wrote the paper: AR ABS ADTS GMW.