About the Authors

Jihyang Park

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

Alissa Kerner

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

Mark A. Burns

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Xiaoxia Nina Lin

ninalin@umich.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

RainDance Technologies provided the PFPE-PEG block copolymer surfactant used in this work and permitted its use solely for the purpose of scientific research at the University of Michigan only under the direction of Dr. Xiaoxia Lin. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JP MAB XNL. Performed the experiments: JP. Analyzed the data: JP MAB XNL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK. Wrote the paper: JP MAB XNL.