About the Authors

Alessandro Polini

alessandro.polini@nano.cnr.it (AP); dario.pisignano@unisalento.it (DP)

Affiliation CNR - National Research Council of Italy, NNL (National Nanotechnology Laboratory) of Institute Nanoscience, Lecce, Italy

Dario Pisignano

alessandro.polini@nano.cnr.it (AP); dario.pisignano@unisalento.it (DP)

Affiliations CNR - National Research Council of Italy, NNL (National Nanotechnology Laboratory) of Institute Nanoscience, Lecce, Italy, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

Manuela Parodi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale (DIMES), Università di Genova, Genova, Italy

Rodolfo Quarto

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale (DIMES), Università di Genova, Genova, Italy

Silvia Scaglione

Affiliation CNR - National Research Council of Italy, IEIIT Institute, Genova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP DP RQ SS. Performed the experiments: AP MP SS. Analyzed the data: AP DP RQ SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DP RQ SS. Wrote the paper: AP DP SS.