About the Authors

Jie Gao

Affiliation Departments of Mechanical Engineering, University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee, 38152, United States of America

Esra Roan

eroan@memphis.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee, 38152, United States of America

John L. Williams

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee, 38152, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG ER JLW. Performed the experiments: JG. Analyzed the data: JG ER JLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG ER JLW. Wrote the paper: JG ER JLW.