Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11795-9, published online 12 September 2017

This Article contains a typographical error in the Introduction:

“BNNTs reportedly possess very high Young’s modulus (up to 1.3 GPa).”

should read:

“BNNTs reportedly possess very high Young’s modulus (up to 1.3 TPa)”