About the Authors

K. L. Mills

mills@is.mpg.de (KLM); krishna@umich.edu (KG)

Affiliation Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany

Ralf Kemkemer

Affiliations Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany

Shiva Rudraraju

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Krishna Garikipati

mills@is.mpg.de (KLM); krishna@umich.edu (KG)

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLM KG RK. Performed the experiments: KLM. Analyzed the data: KLM KG SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KLM RK KG SR. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KLM KG. Computational Modeling: KG SR.