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Retraction: Electrodeposition of a porous strontium-substituted hydroxyapatite/zinc oxide duplex layer on AZ91 magnesium alloy for orthopedic applications
D.
Gopi
*ab,
N.
Murugan
a,
S.
Ramya
a and
L.
Kavitha
c
aDepartment of Chemistry, Periyar University, Salem 636 011, Tamilnadu, India. E-mail: dhanaraj_gopi@yahoo.com; Fax: +91 427 2345124; Tel: +91 427 2345766
bCentre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Periyar University, Salem 636 011, Tamilnadu, India
cDepartment of Physics, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Central University of Tamilnadu, Thiruvarur-610 101, Tamilnadu, India
First published on 28th March 2023
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Electrodeposition of a porous strontium-substituted hydroxyapatite/zinc oxide duplex layer on AZ91 magnesium alloy for orthopedic applications’ by D. Gopi et al., J. Mater. Chem. B, 2014, 2, 5531–5540, https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TB00960F.
The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the named authors, hereby wholly retracts this Journal of Materials Chemistry B article due to concerns with the reliability of the data in the published article.
Repeating fragments can be observed in the cross-sectional micrograph in Fig. 3g, indicating that the image has been manipulated.
The authors informed the Editor that the characterization of the original samples was outsourced, and they do not have the original raw data for the published results.
Given the significance of the concern about the validity of the data, and the lack of raw data, the findings presented in this paper are not reliable.
N. Murugan responded but did not confirm whether they agreed to retract the article.
Signed: D. Gopi, S. Ramya and L. Kavitha
Date: 16th March 2023
Retraction endorsed by Michaela Mühlberg, Executive Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry B.
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