About the Authors

Claudio Chiastra

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudio Chiastra, Eros Montin

claudio.chiastra@polimi.it

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Eros Montin

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudio Chiastra, Eros Montin

Affiliation Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Marco Bologna

Affiliations Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Susanna Migliori

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Cristina Aurigemma

Affiliation Institute of Cardiology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Francesco Burzotta

Affiliation Institute of Cardiology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Simona Celi

Affiliation Fondazione Toscana G. Monasterio, Ospedale Del Cuore, Massa, Italy

Gabriele Dubini

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Francesco Migliavacca

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Luca Mainardi

Affiliation Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CC EM FB FM LM. Formal analysis: CC EM MB SM. Investigation: CC EM MB SM CA FB SC. Methodology: CC EM MB SM. Project administration: CC FM LM. Resources: CA FB SC GD FM LM. Software: CC EM MB SM. Supervision: GD FM LM. Writing – original draft: CC EM MB SM CA FB SC GD FM LM. Writing – review & editing: CC EM MB SM CA FB SC GD FM LM.