About the Authors

Santosh K. Misra

Contributed equally to this work with: Santosh K. Misra, Mao Ye

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America

Mao Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Santosh K. Misra, Mao Ye

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America

Sumin Kim

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America

Dipanjan Pan

dipanjan@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DP. Performed the experiments: SM MY SK. Analyzed the data: SM MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM MY. Wrote the paper: DP SM MY.