Retraction: Prussian blue without coordinated water as a superior cathode for sodium-ion batteries

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Retraction of ‘Prussian blue without coordinated water as a superior cathode for sodium-ion batteries’ by Dezhi Yang et al., Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 8181–8184, https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC01180A.

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We, the named authors, hereby wholly retract this Chemical Communications article as, upon reinvestigation following concerns raised by a reader, we have found that there were problems with the Mössbauer spectra presented and the related discussion.

The authors regret and apologize that the spectra were of poor resolution and therefore the fitting results were disputable. However, these spectra were included mainly for illustrative purposes and the work would still stand following the removal of this aspect of the work, with appropriate adjustments to the discussion.

Having consulted with an independent expert, the Royal Society of Chemistry has determined that any changes made to the paper to correct this would be major, and therefore that the best course of action is retraction and republication of the article with the appropriate data.

The Royal Society of Chemistry is happy that republication of the work with the appropriate data and conclusions is appropriate. The republished article can now be found at https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC04702K.

Signed: Dezhi Yang^a, Jing Xu^a, Xiao-Zhen Liao*^a, Hong Wang^b, Yu-Shi He^a and Zi-Feng Ma*^ab, 25th August 2022.

Retraction endorsed by Richard Kelly, Executive Editor, Chemical Communications.

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