Acknowledgements
This research was partially funded by NSF GOALI #1805406, awarded to RN. ML was partially supported by the CEST/Bayer Predoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. The rheology tests were performed with instruments at the Notre Dame’s ND Energy Materials Characterization Facility. The computational resources to run COMSOL Multiphysics were provided by the Notre Dame Center for Research Computing (CRC). The P. aeruginosa strain was provided by Joshua Shrout. Cale Harnish is thanked for his help with the phase field model.