Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08226-2, published online 24 January 2019

The original version of this Article omitted the fourth author Taizo Yoshinaga, who is from the ‘Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Japan’. Consequently, the third sentence of the Author Contributions, ‘M.S. and M.K. synthesized the ITO NCs and ITO/semiconductor oxides’ was revised to ‘M.S., M.K. and T.Y. synthesized the ITO NCs and ITO/semiconductor oxides’. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.