About the Authors

Yun Chen

yun.chen@brightstartechinc.com

Affiliation BrightstarTech, Inc., Clarksburg, Maryland, United States of America

Wei Huang

Affiliation Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shlomi Constantini

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Dana Children's Hospital, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The hydraulic energy redirection and release technology described in this manuscript has been filed with US PTO for a patent application. 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: YC. Performed the experiments: YC WH. Analyzed the data: YC SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC WH. Wrote the paper: YC SC.