Correction to: NPG Asia Materials advance online publication, 27 February 2015; doi:10.1038/am.2015.2

After online publication of this article, the authors noticed an error in the reference section.

The correct reference of this article should have read as below.

39. Prinz, J., Schreiber, B., Olejko, L., Oertel, J., Rackwitz, J., Keller, A. & Bald, I. DNA origami substrates for highly sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 4140–4145 (2013).

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused.