About the Authors

Reynald M. Lescarbeau

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

F. Philipp Seib

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marina Prewitz

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Carsten Werner

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany

David L. Kaplan

david.kaplan@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL FPS. Performed the experiments: RL FPS. Analyzed the data: RL FPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP CW. Wrote the paper: RL DLK.