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Retraction: Water droplet behavior in between hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces and dust mitigation
Bekir Sami Yilbas*abcd,
Abba Abdulhamid Abubakara,
Johnny Ebaika Adukwua,
Ghassan Hassanabc,
Hussain Al-Qahtaniab,
Abdullah Al-Sharafiabc,
Muhammet Unale and
Ammar Alzaydia
aMechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: bsyilbas@kfupm.edu.sa; Tel: +966 3 860 4481
bIRC for Renewable Energy and Power, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
cK. A. CARE Energy Research & Innovation Center, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
dTurkish Japanese University of Science and Technology, Istanbul, Turkey
eEngineering Faculty, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
First published on 19th February 2026
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Water droplet behavior in between hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces and dust mitigation’ by Bekir Sami Yilbas et al., RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 28788–28799, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2RA04845K.
The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to concerns with the reliability of the data.
Several concerns with the data have been identified within a group of articles by the same author group.
The authors have not been able to satisfactorily address these concerns.
Given the significance of these concerns, the Editor has lost confidence that the findings presented in this paper are reliable.
The authors were informed about the retraction of the article. Bekir Sami Yilbas has not agreed with the decision, the other authors have not responded.
Bekir Sami Yilbas states that authors disagree with the retraction and state that all figures were generated by the authors, and the reuse of one or two surface-characterization images neither constitutes duplicated data being presented as new nor compromises the validity of the findings, since the scientific discussion in each paper is supported by multiple figures.
Signed: Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances
Date: 30th January 2026
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