About the Authors

Santiago Treviño III

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yudong Sun

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tim F. Cooper

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kevin E. Bassler

bassler@uh.edu

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KEB. Performed the experiments: ST YS. Analyzed the data: ST YS TFC KEB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TFC. Wrote the paper: ST YS TFC KEB. Designed software used in the experiments: ST YS.