About the Authors

Inho Yoon

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kosuke Hamaguchi

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ivan V. Borzenets

Current address: Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Gleb Finkelstein

Affiliation Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Richard Mooney

mooney@neuro.duke.edu (RM); brd+plos13@cs.duke.edu (BRD)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Bruce R. Donald

mooney@neuro.duke.edu (RM); brd+plos13@cs.duke.edu (BRD)

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/711,511 (Title: Carbon Nanotube Probe) solely belongs to the authors of this paper and no other (Duke University assigned all of University’s right to authors). And no experimental data is included in the application. Therefore, there is no competing interest here and the authors do not see any compromise of objectivity or validity of the research, analyses, or interpretations in the paper. 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: IY GF RM BRD. Performed the experiments: IY KH. Analyzed the data: IY KH IB RM BRD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IY KH IB GF. Wrote the paper: IY RM BRD.