Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12967, published online 30 September 2016.

This Article contains an error in Fig. 4c and Supplementary Figs. 5b and 6d.

In Fig. 4c, the panel representing the MCF7 cells at 20 ppm was inadvertently duplicated. The correct version of Fig. 4c is

In Supplementary Fig. 5b, the two SEM images for “After irradiation” and “1 week” were not measured on the same batch as the other two SEM images in the figure representing “4 weeks” and “8 weeks”. The correct version of Supplementary Fig. 5b is

In Supplementary Fig. 6d, the panel representing BPQDs/PLGA NSs at 20 ppm was inadvertently duplicated . The correct version of Supplementary Fig. 6d is

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