About the Authors

Kun Yue

Affiliation Center for Nanomedicine, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Rakesh Guduru

Affiliation Center for Nanomedicine, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jeongmin Hong

Affiliation Center for Nanomedicine, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ping Liang

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Madhavan Nair

Affiliations Center for Nanomedicine, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Sakhrat Khizroev

khizroev@fiu.edu

Affiliations Center for Nanomedicine, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK. Performed the experiments: KY. Analyzed the data: KY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KY. Wrote the paper: SK. Designed and supervised the entire experiment: SK. Conducted the related numerical simulations: KY. Contributed to understanding the underlying chemistry of the ME nanoparticles: RG. Helped with the microscopy study: JH. Identified the application constraints/limitations: PL. Designed the part of the study associated with the neural network's response to the nanoparticle injection: MN.