Correction to: npj Materials Degradation https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-021-00174-5, published online 26 May 2021

The original version of this Article omitted from the author list the 3rd author Scott Gordon, 4th author David Olson, 5th author Stephen Liu, 6th author Zeev Shayer and 7th and corresponding author Zhenzhen Yu (zyu@mines.edu), who are all from the George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden (#2).

Consequently, the following was added to the Acknowledgements: ‘The authors are grateful for the helpful discussions with Charles Bryan and Eric J. Schindelholz from Sandia National Laboratories’.

Additionally, the Author Contributions has been updated: ‘X. Wu and Z. Yu contributed to designing experiments and establishing methodology. X. Wu performed the FEM simulation and data analysis. Z. Yu supervised this project as the principal investigator. S. Gordon conducted the electrochemical tests and provided part of the input parameters for the model. F. Mu, D. Olson, S. Liu and Z. Shayer contributed to discussions in this manuscript. All the authors reviewed the manuscript’.

The Corresponding authors section has been updated: ‘Correspondence to Xin Wu, Fengwen Mu or Zhenzhen Yu’.

This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.