About the Authors

Xiaohong Wang

wmueller@uni-mainz.de (WEGM); wang013@uni-mainz.de (XW)

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Emad Tolba

Affiliations ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Biomaterials Department, Inorganic Chemical Industries Division, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

Heinz C. Schröder

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Meik Neufurth

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Qingling Feng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education of China, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Bärbel Diehl-Seifert

Affiliation NanotecMARIN GmbH, Mainz, Germany

Werner E. G. Müller

wmueller@uni-mainz.de (WEGM); wang013@uni-mainz.de (XW)

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

BDS is employed by the company NanotecMARIN GmbH. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XHW MN QF HCS WEGM. Performed the experiments: MN BDS WEGM. Analyzed the data: MN BDS WEGM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XHW MN QF WEGM. Wrote the paper: WEGM XHW QF HCS. Manuscript comments: MN.