About the Authors

Mirian Michelle Machado De Paula

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliations Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicole Joy Bassous

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Samson Afewerki

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Samarah Vargas Harb

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute of Chemistry, UNESP-São Paulo State University, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil

Paria Ghannadian

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fernanda Roberta Marciano

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute of Science and Technology, Brasil University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Bartolomeu Cruz Viana

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations LIMAV-Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Materials, PPGCM-Materials Science and Engineering graduate program, UFPI-Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil, Department of Physics, UFPI-Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil

Carla Roberta Tim

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Science and Technology, Brasil University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Thomas Jay Webster

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anderson Oliveira Lobo

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

lobo@ufpi.edu.br, aolobo@pq.cnpq.br.

Affiliations Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, Institute of Science and Technology, Brasil University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, LIMAV-Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Materials, PPGCM-Materials Science and Engineering graduate program, UFPI-Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.