About the Authors

Lurong Pan

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

James C. Patterson

pattersj@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP JCP. Performed the experiments: LP. Analyzed the data: LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCP. Wrote the paper: LP JCP.