Contributors
Yuxin Tong: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Ezgi Kucukdeger: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review
& editing
Justin Halper: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Ellen Cesewski: Role: MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draft
Elena Karakozoff: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: SupervisionRole:
Validation
Alexander P. Haring: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Validation
David McIlvain: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
SupervisionRole: Validation
Manjot Singh: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: Visualization
Nikita Khandelwal: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Validation
Alex Meholic: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Validation
Sahil Laheri: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Visualization
Akshay Sharma: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Blake N. Johnson:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4668-2011
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Virgilio Mattoli: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
28
March
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 3
Electronic Location Identifier: e0214120
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia,
United States of America
[2
]
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia,
United States of America
[3
]
Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
of America
[4
]
School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
[5
]
School of Architecture + Design, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
of America
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Center for Micro BioRobotics, ITALY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-12827
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214120
PMC ID: 6438526
PubMed ID: 30921360
SO-VID: df23475e-25fc-4e7b-a752-a3336f9cb11c
Copyright © © 2019 Tong et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 28
April
2018
Date
accepted
: 8
March
2019
Page count
Figures: 8,
Tables: 0,
Pages: 23
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007263, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University;
Award ID: SEC-2018
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4668-2011
Blake N. Johnson
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007263, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University;
Award ID: ICAT-2018
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4668-2011
Blake N. Johnson
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001, National Science Foundation;
Award ID: DUE-1644138
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4668-2011
Blake N. Johnson
BNJ is grateful for the generous support of the National Science Foundation (DUE-1644138)
and the Virginia Tech Student Engineers’ Council (SEC-2018). BNJ and AS are grateful
for the generous support of the Virginia Tech Institute for Creativity, Arts, and
Technology (ICAT-2018). All funding sources had no role in study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no
additional external funding received from this study.
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