Altering Mucus Rheology to “Solidify” Human Mucus at the Nanoscale

• Samuel K. Lai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel K. Lai, Ying-Ying Wang

  Affiliation Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Ying-Ying Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel K. Lai, Ying-Ying Wang

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Richard Cone,

  Affiliations Department of Biophysics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Denis Wirtz,

  Affiliations Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Justin Hanes

  * E-mail: hanes@jhu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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