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Retraction: Polymer nanodots of graphitic carbon nitride as effective fluorescent probes for the detection of Fe3+ and Cu2+ ions
Shouwei
Zhang
ab,
Jiaxing
Li
c,
Meiyi
Zeng
b,
Jinzhang
Xu
b,
Xiangke
Wang
*ac and
Wenping
Hu
*d
aSchool for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, PR China. E-mail: xkwang@ipp.ac.cn; xkwang@suda.edu.cn; Fax: +86-551-65591310; Tel: +86-551-65592788
bSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230031, PR China
cKey Laboratory of Novel Thin Film Solar Cells, Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei 230031, PR China
dBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China. E-mail: huwp@iccas.ac.cn; Fax: +86-10-62527295; Tel: +86-10-82615030
First published on 14th September 2021
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Polymer nanodots of graphitic carbon nitride as effective fluorescent probes for the detection of Fe3+ and Cu2+ ions’ by Shouwei Zhang et al., Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 4157–4162, DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06744K.
The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the authors, hereby wholly retract this Nanoscale article due to concerns with the reliability of the data in the published article. Repeating fragments can be observed in the TEM images in Fig. 1B and C, indicating that these images have been manipulated. The first author initially requested to retract this article because he admitted that Photoshop technology was used in the preparation of Fig. 1. The authors subsequently requested to correct the article based on updated experimental data. The authors apologize for any inconvenience to readers.
Signed: Shouwei Zhang, Jiaxing Li, Meiyi Zeng, Jinzhang Xu, Xiangke Wang and Wenping Hu
Date: 11th August 2021
Retraction endorsed by Michaela Mühlberg, Executive Editor, Nanoscale.
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