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Retraction: Synthesis of octahedral, truncated octahedral, and cubic Rh2Ni nanocrystals and their structure–activity relationship for the decomposition of hydrazine in aqueous solution to hydrogen
Dong
Ge Tong
ab
aMineral Resources Chemistry Key Laboratory of Sichuan Higher Education Institutions, College of Materials and Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China. E-mail: tongdongge@163.com; Fax: +8628 8407 9074
bCollaborative Innovation Center of Panxi Strategic Mineral Resources Multi-purpose Utilization, Chengdu 610059, China
First published on 28th August 2019
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Synthesis of octahedral, truncated octahedral, and cubic Rh2Ni nanocrystals and their structure–activity relationship for the decomposition of hydrazine in aqueous solution to hydrogen’ by Chun Li et al., Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 7043–7055.
The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this Nanoscale article, with the agreement of the authors, due to concerns with the reliability of the electron microscope (EM) images in the published article.
The STEM images in Fig. 1a, 2a, 3a, S3, S13, S14, S15, S16, S22, S28 and S42 contain duplications of the same particles or shapes within the images.
There are discrepancies in the background of Fig. S8 suggesting that the STEM image may have been altered inappropriately.
The authors informed us that the characterisation was completed by a third party company and they used the images “without any editing or modification”. The authors repeated the experiments and requested to provide replacement data for Fig. 1a, 2a, 3a, S3, S13–S16, S22, S28 and S42. The authors believe that the scientific content and conclusions of the related studies presented by the pictures in the published paper can be reproduced. However, the independent expert still questions the reliability of the published images. The authors informed us that due to a flooding accident in the laboratory, the original data of the published EM images were destroyed. In addition, the third party company only saved the test data for one month. Due to the large number of images, it is not possible to replace the published images with the new figures. To avoid the possibility of publishing unreliable EM images, the authors agree to retract this paper to protect the rigor of the scientific record.
This retraction supersedes the information provided in the Expression of Concern related to this article.
Signed: Dr Dong Ge Tong (on behalf of the authors)
Date: 1st August 2019
Retraction endorsed by Michaela Muehlberg, Managing Editor, Nanoscale
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