About the Authors

Michael Bezuidenhout

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, and Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Pai Liu

Affiliation Materials and Surface Science Institute and Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Shalini Singh

Affiliation Materials and Surface Science Institute and Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Maeve Kiely

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, and Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Kevin M. Ryan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin M. Ryan, Patrick A. Kiely

Affiliation Materials and Surface Science Institute and Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Patrick A. Kiely

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin M. Ryan, Patrick A. Kiely

Patrick.Kiely@ul.ie

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, and Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, Stokes Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB KMR PAK. Performed the experiments: MB PL SS MK. Analyzed the data: MB KMR PAK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KMR PAK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MB KMR PAK.