About the Authors

Marc Griesemer

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc Griesemer, Carissa Young

mgriesemer@ucmerced.edu

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Carissa Young

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc Griesemer, Carissa Young

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Anne S. Robinson

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Linda Petzold

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG CY ASR. Performed the experiments: MG CY. Analyzed the data: MG LP. Wrote the paper: MG CY ASR LP.