About the Authors

Samantha G. Tilson

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America

Elizabeth M. Haley

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America

Ursula L. Triantafillu

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America

David A. Dozier

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America

Catherine P. Langford

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

G. Yancey Gillespie

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yonghyun Kim

ykim@eng.ua.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGT DAD YK. Performed the experiments: SGT EMH ULT CPL. Analyzed the data: SGT EMH ULT GYG YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGT GYG YK. Wrote the paper: SGT EMH ULT DAD CPL GYG YK.