About the Authors

Bruno Zappone

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bruno.zappone@cnr.it (BZ); giuseppe.lombardo@cnr.it (GL)

Affiliation Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Nanotecnologia (CNR-Nanotec), Rende (CS), Italy

Navinkumar J. Patil

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy

Marco Lombardo

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vision Engineering Italy srl, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Lombardo

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

bruno.zappone@cnr.it (BZ); giuseppe.lombardo@cnr.it (GL)

Affiliation Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (CNR-IPCF), Messina, Italy

Competing Interests

The affiliation of Marco Lombardo with Vision Engineering Italy srl does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.