Correction to: Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2018) 25:32617–32630

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3252-z

In the original publication Fig. 10b was erroneously plotted due to the authors’ carelessness and unintentional misoperation. When plotting Fig. 10b in the Origin 8.0 software, the XRD data of 2.5 mM Na-oxalate was unintentionally covered by the XRD data of 4.0 mM Na-oxalate that was multiplied only for the purpose of comparison during data analysis without changing the intrinsic diffraction characteristics. The authors have rechecked the raw data carefully and would like to make a correction to this figure with the updated one shown as below. This corrigendum does not affect the discussion and conclusions of the original paper. The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Fig. 10
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XRD patterns of metal-loaded samples at pH 4.0 (a) and 6.5 (b) with different Na-oxalate concentrations. T = 298 K, m/V = 0.5 g/L, CEu(III)initial = CNi(II)initial = 5.0 × 10−5 mol/L, I = 0.01 mol/L NaNO3