About the Authors

Pasquale Emanuele Scopelliti

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) and Physics Department, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Micro and Nano Fabrication Platform, Fondazione Filarete, Milan, Italy

Antonio Borgonovo

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) and Physics Department, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Micro and Nano Fabrication Platform, Fondazione Filarete, Milan, Italy

Marco Indrieri

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) and Physics Department, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Luca Giorgetti

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) and Physics Department, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology Campus IFOM-IEO, Milan, Italy

Gero Bongiorno

Affiliation Micro and Nano Fabrication Platform, Fondazione Filarete, Milan, Italy

Roberta Carbone

Affiliation Tethis srl, Milan, Italy

Alessandro Podestà

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) and Physics Department, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Paolo Milani

paolo.milani@mi.infn.it

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) and Physics Department, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Micro and Nano Fabrication Platform, Fondazione Filarete, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

R. Carbone is affiliated with Tethis s.r.l. (www.tethis-lab.com) which, without any costs, provided the facilities and the technical assistance for the production of the nanostructured samples used in this study. Tethis s.r.l. has no interest in patents, products in development or marketed products related to the subject of this study. The authors therefore declare that this does not alter their adherence to the PLoS ONE policy on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PES LG GB. Performed the experiments: PES MI AB. Analyzed the data: PES MI AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PES RC. Wrote the paper: PES PM. Directed the research: PM.