About the Authors

Chiara Civardi

civardic@student.ethz.ch (CC); francis.schwarze@empa.ch (FS)

Affiliations ETH, Institute for Building Materials, Zürich, Switzerland, Empa, Applied Wood Materials, Dübendorf/ St. Gallen, Switzerland

Jan Van den Bulcke

Affiliation UGCT - Woodlab-UGent, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Forest and Water Management, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Mark Schubert

Affiliation Empa, Applied Wood Materials, Dübendorf/ St. Gallen, Switzerland

Elisabeth Michel

Affiliation Empa, Advanced Fibers, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Maria Isabel Butron

Affiliation Empa, Applied Wood Materials, Dübendorf/ St. Gallen, Switzerland

Matthieu N. Boone

Affiliation UGCT - Radiation Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Proeftuinstraat 86/N12, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Manuel Dierick

Affiliation UGCT - Radiation Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Proeftuinstraat 86/N12, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Joris Van Acker

Affiliation UGCT - Woodlab-UGent, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Forest and Water Management, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Peter Wick

Affiliation Empa, Particles-Biology Interactions, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Francis W. M. R. Schwarze

civardic@student.ethz.ch (CC); francis.schwarze@empa.ch (FS)

Affiliation Empa, Applied Wood Materials, Dübendorf/ St. Gallen, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CC JVdB. Data curation: CC JVdB MS MNB MD. Formal analysis: CC JVdB MS EM MIB MNB MD. Funding acquisition: CC PW FWMRS. Investigation: CC JVdB MS EM MIB MNB MD. Methodology: CC JVdB MS. Project administration: CC JVdB JVA PW FWMRS. Resources: CC JVdB MS EM MIB MNB MD JVA PW FWMRS. Software: JVdB MS MNB MD. Supervision: JVA PW FWMRS. Validation: CC JVdB MS MNB MD. Visualization: CC JVdB MS MNB MD. Writing – original draft: CC JVdB MNB MD. Writing – review & editing: CC JVdB MS EM MIB MNB MD JVA PW FWMRS.