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Retraction: The influence of nanoscale size on the adsorption–desorption of U(VI) on nano-Al oxides
Tian
Wan
a,
Wen
Cheng
a,
Jiehui
Ren
a,
Wei
Wu
a,
Min
Wang
a,
Baowei
Hu
*b,
Ziyi
Jia
c and
Yubing
Sun
*d
aState Key Laboratory of Eco-Hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region, Xi'an University of Technology, Shanxi 710048, P. R. China
bSchool of Life Science, Shaoxing University, Huancheng West Road 508, Shaoxing 312000, P. R. China. E-mail: hbw@usx.edu.cn
cSchool of environmental and chemical engineering, Xi'an Polytechnic University, P. R. China
dCollege of Environmental Science and Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, P. R. China. E-mail: sunyb@ncepu.edu.cn
First published on 23rd April 2020
Abstract
Retraction of ‘The influence of nanoscale size on the adsorption–desorption of U(VI) on nano-Al oxides’ by Tian Wan et al., Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2018, 5, 2731–2741.
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.
Repeating fragments can be observed in the XPS spectra reported in Fig. 5A, which indicates that they have been manipulated.
The authors have informed us that they used the wrong dataset to plot the EXAFS curve in Fig. 5B. Therefore, the published EXAFS data in Fig. 5B is unreliable.
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: Baowei Hu and Yubing Sun
Date: 27th March 2020
Tian Wan, Wen Cheng, Jiehui Ren, Wei Wu, Min Wang and Ziyi Jia were contacted but did not respond.
Retraction endorsed by Sam Keltie, Executive Editor, Environmental Science: Nano
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