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Figure 1: Structure and analysis of NaCl nanoplatelets and reported ‘square ice’.

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W.Z., C.W. and A.R.L. wrote this Comment with help from the other authors. W.Z., K.Y., C.W. and T.X. performed the experiment. Y.Z. and S.T.P. performed the calculations. C.W., T.X. and L.S. prepared the graphene samples. All authors discussed the paper and contributed to data analysis.

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Zhou, W., Yin, K., Wang, C. et al. The observation of square ice in graphene questioned. Nature 528, E1–E2 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16145

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