About the Authors

Jie Gao

dencyl@ufl.edu (JG); bmoudgil@perc.ufl.edu (BM)

Affiliations Particle Engineering Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Yihai Wang

Affiliation Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Kevin M. Folta

Affiliation Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Vijay Krishna

Affiliation Particle Engineering Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Wei Bai

Affiliation Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Paul Indeglia

Affiliation Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Angelina Georgieva

Affiliation Particle Engineering Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Hideya Nakamura

Affiliation Particle Engineering Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Ben Koopman

Affiliations Particle Engineering Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Brij Moudgil

dencyl@ufl.edu (JG); bmoudgil@perc.ufl.edu (BM)

Affiliations Particle Engineering Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG KMF BM. Performed the experiments: JG YW WB. Analyzed the data: JG KMF BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VK AG. Wrote the paper: JG YW KMF WB PI AG HN BK BM.