Open Access Article
Junaid Khan*ab,
A. Ahmedc and
Abdullah A. Al-Kahtanid
aDepartment of Physics, Government Postgraduate College No. 1, Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. E-mail: junaidkhan.nanotech@gmail.com
bDepartment of Higher Education Achieves and Libraries, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
cSchool of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
dChemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2455, Riyadh-22451, Saudi Arabia
First published on 2nd March 2026
Retraction of ‘Superior electrochemical performances of highly porous bismuth oxyhalide/lemon peel derived activated carbon electrode materials for solid state asymmetric and symmetric supercapattery devices’ by Junaid Khan et al., RSC Adv., 2025, 15, 49565–49583, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5RA07844J.
Junaid Khan had access to this material as a reviewer for another publisher and then submitted the same work to the Royal Society of Chemistry with a different author list. They have not been able to provide evidence that they carried out this work.
The authors were informed about the retraction of the article. Junaid Khan has not agreed with the decision, the other authors have not responded.
Signed: Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances
Date: 24th February 2026
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