About the Authors

Ruoting Yang

Affiliation Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Scott C. Lenaghan

Affiliation Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

John P. Wikswo

Affiliation Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, and Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Mingjun Zhang

mjzhang@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RY SL JW MJZ. Performed the experiments: RY SL JW MJZ. Analyzed the data: RY SL JW MJZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RY SL JW MJZ. Wrote the paper: RY SL JW MJZ.