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Retraction: Magnetic Fe3O4@NiO hierarchical structures: preparation and their excellent As(V) and Cr(VI) removal capabilities

Shouwei Zhangab, Jiaxing Lib, Tao Wenb, Jinzhang Xu*a and Xiangke Wang*b
aSchool of Material Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230031, P. R. China
bKey Laboratory of Novel Thin Film Solar Cells, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1126, Hefei, 230031, P. R. China. E-mail: xkwang@ipp.ac.cn; Fax: +86-5515591310; Tel: +86-551-5592788

Received 8th September 2021 , Accepted 8th September 2021

First published on 15th September 2021


Abstract

Retraction of ‘Magnetic Fe3O4@NiO hierarchical structures: preparation and their excellent As(V) and Cr(VI) removal capabilities’ by Shouwei Zhang et al., RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 2754–2764, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA22495J.


The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the named authors, hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to concerns with the reliability of the data in the published article. The authors requested to retract this article because they admitted that the TEM characterization of the Fe3O4@NiO hierarchical microspheres in Fig. 4c was duplicated from the characterization of Fe3O4@NiAl-LDH microspheres in Fig. S4B from a J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper by Mingfei Shao et al. without permission.1 The authors would like to apologise to the authors of ref. 1, and for any inconvenience to readers.

Signed: Shouwei Zhang, Jiaxing Li, Jinzhang Xu and Xiangke Wang

Date: 11th August 2021

Tao Wen was contacted but did not respond

Retraction endorsed by Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances

References

  1. M. Shao, F. Ning, J. Zhao, M. Wei, D. G. Evans and X. Duan, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134(2), 1071–1077 CrossRef CAS PubMed.

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