About the Authors

Yajing Kan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yajing Kan, Eric W. Danner

Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, and School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Eric W. Danner

Contributed equally to this work with: Yajing Kan, Eric W. Danner

Affiliation Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Jacob N. Israelachvili

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Yunfei Chen

yunfeichen@seu.edu.cn (YC); waite@lifesci.ucsb.edu (JHW)

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, and School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

J. Herbert Waite

yunfeichen@seu.edu.cn (YC); waite@lifesci.ucsb.edu (JHW)

Affiliation Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK ED JI YC JHW. Performed the experiments: YK ED. Analyzed the data: YK ED JHW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK ED JI YC JHW. Wrote the paper: ED YK JHW.