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Correction: The Fabrication of Nano-Particles in aqueous solution from Oxyfluoride Glass Ceramics by Thermal Induction and Corrosion Treatment

Hua Yu1,2, Nan Hu1, Ya-Nan Wang1, Zi-Lan Wang1, Zong-Song Gan1 and Li-Juan Zhao1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Photonics Center, College of Physical Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China

2 Tianjin Key Lab of Photonics Material and Technology for Information Science and The Key Lab of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300457, China

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Nanoscale Research Letters 2011, 6:509 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-6-509


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Received:9 June 2011
Accepted:25 August 2011
Published:25 August 2011

© 2011 Yu et al; licensee Springer.

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Correction

The key reference to work of Mortier and Patriarche had been inadvertently omitted from this article [1]. The statement below in the original INTRODUCTION section is not very accurate and appropriate:

"Unfortunately, ever since the first report on oxyfluoride GCs, there have been much research on the properties of nano-particles in GCs but no publication has been reported about how to obtain free nano-particles in aqueous solution from the GC-host and how to apply it to the fields mentioned above, especially in biological field."

The authors amend it as follows:

Mortier and Patriarche [2] showed that PbF2 nanoparticles could be produced by dissolving the amorphous GeO2-PbO phase of GCs with HF. Unfortunately, the corrosion between GeO2-PbO and HF can hardly be complete so that the nanoparticle had an amorphous phase as a shell in their experiment. Therefore, no publication has been reported about how to obtain free and pure crystalline nano-particles in aqueous solution from the GC-host and how to apply it to the fields mentioned above.

References

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    Nanoscale Research Letters 2008, 3:516. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text | PubMed Central Full Text OpenURL

  2. Mortier Michel, Patriarche Gilles: Oxide glass used as inorganic template for fluorescent fluoride nanoparticles synthesis.

    Optical Materials 2006, 28:1401. Publisher Full Text OpenURL