Yubing
Sun
,
Changlun
Chen
,
Xiaoli
Tan
,
Dadong
Shao
,
Jiaxing
Li
,
Guixia
Zhao
,
Shubin
Yang
,
Qi
Wang
and
Xiangke
Wang
*
Key Lab of Novel Thin Film Solar Cells, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1126, Hefei 230031, P. R. China. E-mail: xkwang@ipp.ac.cn; Fax: +86 551 5591310; Tel: +86 551 5592788
First published on 23rd April 2020
Retraction of ‘Enhanced adsorption of Eu(III) on mesoporous Al2O3/expanded graphite composites investigated by macroscopic and microscopic techniques’ by Yubing Sun et al., Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 13388–13394.
The XRD spectra for Al2O3/EG composites and raw graphite in Fig. 1A illustrate duplication of data given that they are reported as different materials.
The SEM image in Fig. 1D (SEM) duplicates data published in other articles, but reported as different materials.1,2
The EXAFS data presented in Fig. 5 is unreliable as some of the data has been duplicated in another publication.3
Given the number and significance of the concerns about the validity of the data, the findings presented in this paper are no longer reliable.
Signed: Yubing Sun, Dadong Shao, Guixia Zhao, Shubin Yang and Xiangke Wang
Date: 27th March 2020
Changlun Chen, Xiaoli Tan, Jiaxing Li and Qi Wang were contacted but did not respond.
Retraction endorsed by Andrew Shore, Executive Editor, Dalton Transactions
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