About the Authors

Edith Schäfer

Affiliation Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Marco Tarantola

Affiliation Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity (LFPB), Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Elena Polo

Affiliation Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Christian Westendorf

Affiliation Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity (LFPB), Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Noriko Oikawa

Affiliation Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity (LFPB), Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Eberhard Bodenschatz

Affiliations Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity (LFPB), Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Institute of Nonlinear Dynamics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Burkhard Geil

Affiliation Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Andreas Janshoff

ajansho@gwdg.de

Affiliation Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES BG EB AJ. Performed the experiments: EP MT NO CW. Analyzed the data: BG AJ. Wrote the paper: ES BG AJ.