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"The authors declare the following competing financial interest(s): A.E.B. is a shareholder and member of the Board of Directors of Maxwell Biosciences; N.M., G.D., and H.J. are shareholders and consultants for Maxwell Biosciences."

"This research was mentored and financially supported by Stanford’s SPARK Translational Research Program together with the Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI). Funding was also provided by an NIH/NIA grant, no. 1DP1OD029517-01. We would like to thank Prof. Reidar Lund for his valuable input on the analysis of SAXS data. The SAXS experiments were conducted at the Advanced Light Source (ALS), a national user facility operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences, through the Integrated Diffraction Analysis Technologies (IDAT) program, supported by DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research. Additional support comes from the National Institutes of Health project ALS-ENABLE (P30 GM124169) and a High-End Instrumentation Grant (S10OD018483). We thank Dr. Gregory Hura and Kathryn Burnett at ALS for support during the SAXS experiment. We gratefully acknowledge Dr. Michael Connolly at the Molecular Foundry for assistance with peptoid synthesis and sample preparation equipment, and Dr. Behzad Rad for assistance with the surface tension experiments. Work at the Molecular Foundry was supported by the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231."