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Retraction: Superior adsorption capacity of hierarchical iron oxide@magnesium silicate magnetic nanorods for fast removal of organic pollutants from aqueous solution
Shouwei
Zhang
ab,
Wenqing
Xu
d,
Meiyi
Zeng
b,
Jie
Li
a,
Jiaxing
Li
*a,
Jinzhang
Xu
b and
Xiangke
Wang
*ac
aKey Laboratory of Novel Thin Film Solar Cells, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1126, Hefei, P. R. China. E-mail: lijx@ipp.ac.cn; xkwang@ipp.ac.cn; Fax: +86-551-65591310; Tel: +86-551-65592788
bSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, P. R. China
cSchool for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China
dDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 9 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT 06520, USA
First published on 13th September 2021
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Superior adsorption capacity of hierarchical iron oxide@magnesium silicate magnetic nanorods for fast removal of organic pollutants from aqueous solution’ by Shouwei Zhang et al., J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1, 11691–11697, DOI: 10.1039/C3TA12767B.
The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the authors, hereby wholly retracts this Journal of Materials Chemistry A article due to concerns with the reliability of the data in the published article.
The XRD spectra presented in Fig. 1A(b) and (c) are identical with the exception of a peak at ∼20 theta in spectrum (c). Furthermore, all 3 spectra presented in Fig. 1A appear to have identical baselines in the region of 10–15 theta.
The first author also admitted that the TEM image presented in Fig. 2B was reproduced from a Materials Letter paper by Lu-Ping Zhu et al. without permission.1
The first author initially requested to retract this article, but the authors subsequently asked to correct it based on updated experimental data. The authors would like to apologise to the authors of ref. 1 and for any inconvenience to readers.
Signed: Shouwei Zhang, Wenqing Xu, Meiyi Zeng, Jie Li, Jiaxing Li, Jinzhang Xu and Xiangke Wang
Date: 11th August 2021
Retraction endorsed by Michaela Mühlberg, Executive Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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