Xin Liu, Shanmin Gao, Hui Xu, Zaizhu Lou, Wenjun Wang, Baibiao Huang and Ying Dai

Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 1870–1875. Amendment first published 15th April 2013

The synthesis of Ti³⁺-self-doped TiO₂ via oxidation of TiH₂ reported in this article was initially invented and developed at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Illinois University (NIU), where Shanmin Gao was a visiting scholar under the advisory of Prof. Tao Xu at NIU since 2010. Shanmin Gao, Prof. Tao Xu and Prof. Xu’s PhD student Ms Lauren R. Grabstanowicz worked together on the project and finished the most part of the manuscript by July 2012, including the rationale of the methodology articulated in the introduction of a recent publication in Inorganic Chemistry.¹ The use of the same expression as in the manuscript published in Inorganic Chemistry for the rationale of the methodology in the introduction part of this Nanoscale article by Gao et al. was not to the awareness of Prof. Tao Xu and Ms Grabstanowicz.

Therefore, Shanmin Gao feels regretful that he did not include Prof. Tao Xu and Ms Grabstanowicz in the authorship of this Nanoscale article because both Prof. Tao Xu and Ms Grabstanowicz have made significant intellectual contribution and financial support to this work. For this reason, Gao feels that the authorship and addresses should be corrected as following:

Xin Liu,^a Lauren R. Grabstanowicz,^b Shanmin Gao,*^a,b,c Hui Xu,^a Zaizhu Lou,^c Wenjun Wang,^c Baibiao Huang,^c Ying Dai^c and Tao Xu*^b

^aSchool of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China. E-mail: gaosm@ustc.edu; Fax: +86 535 6696281; Tel: +86 535 6672176
^bDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, United States. Email: txu@niu.edu; Tel: (815)753-6357
^cState Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.

Correspondingly, the acknowledgments section is changed to:

This work was financially supported by research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 21104030, 20973102 and 51021062), the National Basic Research Program of China (no. 2013CB632401), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2011BQ01) and a Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (J12LA01, J11LB03). T. X. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (CBET-1150617).

1. L. R. Grabstanowicz, S. M. Gao, T. Li, R. M. Rickard, T. Rajh, D.-J. Liu and T. Xu, Facile oxidative conversion of TiH₂ to high concentration Ti³⁺-self-doped rutile TiO₂ with visible-light photoactivity, Inorg. Chem., 2013, 52, 3884–3890.

The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.

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