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Retraction: Effect of ethylene glycol on hydrothermal formation of calcium sulfate hemihydrate whiskers with high aspect ratios

Wenpeng Zhao, Yumin Wu*, Jun Xu and Chuanhui Gao
Qingdao University of Science and Technology, 53 Zhengzhou Road, Qingdao 266042, China. E-mail: wuyumin005@163.com

Received 11th October 2016 , Accepted 11th October 2016

First published on 21st October 2016


Abstract

Retraction of ‘Effect of ethylene glycol on hydrothermal formation of calcium sulfate hemihydrate whiskers with high aspect ratios’ by Wenpeng Zhao et al., RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 50544–50548.


We, the named authors hereby wholly retract this RSC Advances article due to unattributed text overlap between this article and an article published in Langmuir by S. Hou et al.,1 cited as ref. 20 in the RSC Advances article.

The authors would like to apologise for any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.

Signed: Wenpeng Zhao, Yumin Wu, Jun Xu and Chuanhui Gao, 10th October 2016.

Retraction endorsed by Andrew Shore, Executive Editor, RSC Advances.

References

  1. S. Hou, J. Wang, X. Wang, H. Chen and L. Xiang, Langmuir, 2014, 30, 9804–9810 CrossRef CAS PubMed.

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