About the Authors

Srijata Sarkar

Affiliation Rutgers School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Piscataway New Jersey, United States of America

Lin Zhang

Affiliation Rutgers School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Piscataway New Jersey, United States of America

Prasad Subramaniam

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Ki-Bum Lee

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Eric Garfunkel

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Pamela A. Ohman. Strickland

Affiliation Rutgers School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Gediminas Mainelis

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Paul J. Lioy

Affiliations Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Teresa D. Tetley

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Kian Fan Chung

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Junfeng Zhang

Affiliation Nicholas School of the Environment and Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mary Ryan

Affiliation Department of Materials and London Center for Nanotechnology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Alex Porter

Affiliation Department of Materials and London Center for Nanotechnology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Stephan Schwander

schwansk@sph.rutgers.edu

Affiliations Rutgers School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Piscataway New Jersey, United States of America, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Rutgers School of Public Health, Center for Global Public Health, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PJL GM KBL TDT KFC JZ S. Schwander. Performed the experiments: S. Sarkar LZ PS. Analyzed the data: S. Sarkar LZ PS KBL EG POS GM PJL TDT JZ MR AP S. Schwander. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S. Sarkar LZ KBL EG JZ S. Schwander. Wrote the paper: S. Sarkar KFC JZ TDT S. Schwander.