About the Authors

Luca Chierico

Contributed equally to this work with: Luca Chierico, Loris Rizzello

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Loris Rizzello

Contributed equally to this work with: Luca Chierico, Loris Rizzello

l.rizzello@ucl.ac.uk (LR); g.battaglia@ucl.ac.uk (GB)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Lijuan Guan

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Adrian Steve Joseph

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Andrew Lewis

Affiliation Biocompatibles UK Ltd., Farnham Business Park, Weydon Lane, Farnham, United Kingdom

Giuseppe Battaglia

l.rizzello@ucl.ac.uk (LR); g.battaglia@ucl.ac.uk (GB)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors received funding from Biocompatibles UK Ltd, a commercial company, for this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LC LR GB. Data curation: LC ASJ. Formal analysis: ASJ. Funding acquisition: AL GB. Investigation: LC LG LR. Methodology: LC. Project administration: LR GB. Resources: AL GB. Software: ASJ. Supervision: LR GB. Validation: LG. Visualization: LR. Writing – original draft: LR. Writing – review & editing: LR GB.