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Retraction: Mechanistic insights into the decontamination of Th(IV) on graphene oxide-based composites by EXAFS and modeling techniques

Yubing Sun *ab, Xiangxue Wang ac, Wencheng Song b, Songhua Lu a, Changlun Chen a and Xiangke Wang bcd
aInstitute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1126, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, P.R. China. E-mail: sunyb@ipp.ac.cn; Fax: +86 551 65591310; Tel: +86 551 65593308
bSchool of Environment and Chemical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, P.R. China
cSchool for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Soochow University and Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, 215123, Suzhou, P.R. China
dNAAM Research Group, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Received 8th April 2020 , Accepted 8th April 2020

First published on 23rd April 2020


Abstract

Retraction of ‘Mechanistic insights into the decontamination of Th(IV) on graphene oxide-based composites by EXAFS and modeling techniques’ by Yubing Sun et al., Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2017, 4, 222–232.


The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the named authors, hereby wholly retracts this Environmental Science: Nano article due to concerns with the reliability of the data in the published article.

There are unexpected similarities in the baselines of the two XPS spectra presented in Fig. 4D, which indicate that data has been duplicated to represent different materials.

Given the significance of the concerns about the validity of the data, the findings presented in this paper are no longer reliable.

Signed: Yubing Sun, Xiangxue Wang and Xiangke Wang

Date: 27th March 2020

Wencheng Song, Songhua Lu and Changlun Chen were contacted but did not respond.

Retraction endorsed by Sam Keltie, Executive Editor, Environmental Science: Nano


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