Open Access Article
This Open Access Article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence
Retraction: Surface modified composite nanofibers for the removal of indigo carmine dye from polluted water
M. G. Yazdia,
M. Ivanicb,
Alaa Mohamed*cde and
A. Uheida*a
aDepartment of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: alakha@kth.se; salam@kth.se; Tel: +201069676710 Tel: +46-8-7909132
bDivision for Marine and Environmental Research, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
cEgypt Nanotechnology Centre, EGNC, Cairo University, 6th October City 12588, Egypt
dMembrane Technology Department, Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344, Germany
eProduction Engineering and Printing Technology Department, Akhbar El Yom Academy, 12655 Giza, Egypt
First published on 12th September 2025
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Surface modified composite nanofibers for the removal of indigo carmine dye from polluted water’ by M. G. Yazdi et al., RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 24588–24598, https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RA02463D.
The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to concerns with the reliability of the data.
The SEM image of APAN nanofibers in Fig. 3a appears in multiple publications from this research group,1–4 and the authors have not been able to satisfactorily explain this.
Given the significance of these concerns, the Editor has lost confidence that the findings presented in this paper are reliable.
The authors were informed but have not indicated whether they agree with the decision to retract.
Signed: Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances
Date: 4th September 2025
References
1 F. Aziz, N. Ouazzani, L. Mandi, M. Muhammad and A. Uheida, Sep. Sci. Technol., 2016, 52, 58–70.2 L. Yohai, H. Giraldo Mejía, R. Procaccini, S. Pellice, K. Laxman Kunjali, J. Dutta and A. Uheida, RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 8280–8289.
3 H. Karimiyan, A. Uheida, M. Hadjmohammadi, M. M. Moein and M. Abdel-Rehim, Talanta, 2019, 201, 474–479.
4 A. Khalil, W. S. Nasser, T. A. Osman, M. S. Toprak, M. Muhammed and A. Uheida, Environ. Res., 2019, 179, 108788.
| This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2025 |