About the Authors

Yun Wang

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alexandr Nizkorodov

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kelsie Riemenschneider

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Christopher S. D. Lee

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Rene Olivares-Navarrete

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Zvi Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Barbara D. Boyan

bboyan@vcu.edu

Affiliations Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDB ZS YW. Performed the experiments: YW AN KR CSDL RON. Analyzed the data: YW AN CSDL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BDB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: YW BDB. Critical evaluation of the work and manuscript: BDB ZW.