Correction to: Nature Materials https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat5047, published online 11 December 2017.

In the version of this Letter originally published, the isotopic enrichments in the caption of Fig. 1a were incorrectly given as “red—10B 98.7%, purple—natural abundant, brown—10B 51%, cyan—11B 83% and blue—11B 99.2%”; they should have read “red—11B 99.2%, purple—natural abundant, brown—10B 51%, cyan—10B 83% and blue—10B 98.7%”.