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Retraction: Spatially resolved mechanical properties of photo-responsive azobenzene-based supramolecular gels
Gyuri Muna,
Heekyoung Choia,
Nayoung Ima,
Junho Ahna,
Jaehyeon Parka,
Hyowon Seoa,
Yeonweon Choia,
Ji Ha Lee*ab and
Jong Hwa Jung*a
aDepartment of Chemistry, Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Korea. E-mail: jonghwa@gnu.ac.kr
bDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Kitakyushu, HiBikino, Kitakyushu 808-013, Japan. E-mail: l-ji@kitakyu-u.ac.jp
First published on 17th November 2017
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Spatially resolved mechanical properties of photo-responsive azobenzene-based supramolecular gels’ by Gyuri Mun et al., RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 26827–26833.
We, the named authors, hereby wholly retract this RSC Advances article due to errors in the figures presented.
In Fig. 4 and S17 (ESI) the first two graphs have been duplicated within each figure. In Fig. S15 and S16 (ESI) graphs B, C, D and E have been artificially modified for the purposes of internal discussion and should not have been submitted for publication.
As a result, the data presented in Fig. 4 and S15–S17 do not represent the data collected in the reported experiments.
The authors have provided replacement data for expert review, however the scientific validity of reported conclusions was not fully supported by the new data. Therefore, this paper is being retracted to protect the accuracy of the scientific record.
Signed: Gyuri Muna, Heekyoung Choia, Nayoung Ima, Junho Ahna, Jaehyeon Parka, Hyowon Seoa, Yeonweon Choia, Ji Ha Lee*ab and Jong Hwa Jung*a
Date: 30th October 2017.
Retraction endorsed by Andrew Shore, Executive Editor, RSC Advances.
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