F. Zoua,
F. Z. Lua,
X. S. Maa,
D. W. Heb,
T. T. Tangc,
X. L. Xiaa,
J. Y. Jiang*a and
Y. F. Niu*b
aDepartment of Orthopaedics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, China. E-mail: zillion-faculty@126.com
bDepartment of Orthopaedics, Changhai Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China. E-mail: nyflying126@126.com
cShanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopedic Implants, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China
First published on 12th April 2017
Retraction of ‘Cell orientation, proliferation, and differentiation on poly(L-lactide) spherulites’ by F. Zou et al., RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 57396–57402.
The following figures have been copied from published papers; Fig. 1a is from Fig. 7a in ref. 1, Fig. 1b is from Fig. 9 in ref. 2, and Fig. 7a and b are from Fig. 3 in ref. 3.
Further to this, the authors have established that the data in Fig. 4, 5 and 6 cannot be reproduced and therefore should not be relied upon. As a result, the conclusions relating to adhesion and cell proliferation are no longer supported.
The authors would like to apologise for any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.
Signed: F. Zou, X. S. Ma, D. W. He, T. T. Tang, X. L. Xia, J. Y. Jiang and Y. F. Niu.
4th February 2017.
F. Z. Lu (co-author to the original paper) could not be contacted.
Retraction endorsed by Andrew Shore, Executive Editor, RSC Advances.
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