Correction to: npj 2D Materials and Applications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-018-0063-5, Published online 22 June 2018

In the original published version of this Article, Wei-Jin Hu was incorrectly listed as being affiliated with Corporate Research and Chief Technology Office, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, 30075, Hsinchu, Taiwan. This has now been updated to be the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shenyang 110016, China. This has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the Article.