About the Authors

Svenja M. Vater

Affiliations Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany, Institute for Functional Interfaces, IFG, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Sebastian Weiße

Affiliations Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany, Institute for Functional Interfaces, IFG, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Stojan Maleschlijski

Affiliations Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany, Institute for Functional Interfaces, IFG, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Analytical Chemistry-Biointerfaces, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Carmen Lotz

Affiliation Institute for Functional Interfaces, IFG, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Florian Koschitzki

Affiliation Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Schwartz

Affiliation Institute for Functional Interfaces, IFG, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Ursula Obst

Affiliation Institute for Functional Interfaces, IFG, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Axel Rosenhahn

axel.rosenhahn@rub.de

Affiliations Institute for Functional Interfaces, IFG, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Analytical Chemistry-Biointerfaces, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV SW AR TS. Performed the experiments: SV FK CL. Analyzed the data: SV FK CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV SW SM TS UO AR. Wrote the paper: SV AR TS. Contributed microorganisms in this study: TS UO. Designed the software used in analysis: SM SV.