About the Authors

Alessandra Apicella

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandra Apicella, Peggy Heunemann, Christopher J. Plummer

Current address: Swiss Integrative Center for Human Health, Passage du Cardinal 1, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

Affiliation Laboratoire des Technologie des Composites et Polymères (LTC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Peggy Heunemann

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandra Apicella, Peggy Heunemann, Christopher J. Plummer

Affiliation Food Process Engineering, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Sreenath Bolisetty

Affiliation Food and Soft Materials Science, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Matteo Marascio

Affiliation Laboratoire des Technologie des Composites et Polymères (LTC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Anja Gemperli Graf

Affiliation Institut Straumann AG, 4052 Basel, Switzerland

Laszlo Garamszegi

Affiliation Institut Straumann AG, 4052 Basel, Switzerland

Raffaele Mezzenga

Affiliation Food and Soft Materials Science, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Peter Fischer

peter.fischer@hest.ethz.ch (PF); christopher.plummer@epfl.ch (CJP)

Affiliation Food Process Engineering, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Christopher J. Plummer

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandra Apicella, Peggy Heunemann, Christopher J. Plummer

peter.fischer@hest.ethz.ch (PF); christopher.plummer@epfl.ch (CJP)

Affiliation Laboratoire des Technologie des Composites et Polymères (LTC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Jan-Anders Månson

Affiliation Laboratoire des Technologie des Composites et Polymères (LTC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

This study was funded by the Competence Center of Materials Science and Technology. AGG and LG are employees of Institut Straumann AG. There are no products in development or marketed products to declare. AA and PH are authors on a patent applied for by Institut Straumann AG relating to stable EMD formulations: Process for producing EMD of increased stability, International publication WO 2015106970 A1. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA PH SB MM. Performed the experiments: AA PH SB MM. Analyzed the data: AA PH SB MM CJP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM PF AGG LG CJP JAM. Wrote the paper: AA PH CJP.