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.