Credit: COURTESY OF THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

In the version of the Editorial 'From particles to nanowires' originally published (Nature Nanotechnology 8, 145; 2013), an image of the wrong Tony Skyrme was used; it should have been that shown below. This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions. Corrected after print 12 April 2013.