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Retraction: Aqueous synthesis of human serum albumin-stabilized fluorescent Au/Ag core/shell nanocrystals for highly sensitive and selective sensing of copper(II)
Philippa
Ross
Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK. E-mail: analyst-rsc@rsc.org
First published on 19th October 2020
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Aqueous synthesis of human serum albumin-stabilized fluorescent Au/Ag core/shell nanocrystals for highly sensitive and selective sensing of copper(II)’ by Rijun Gui et al., Analyst, 2013, 138, 7197–7205, DOI: 10.1039/C3AN01397A.
The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this Analyst article due to concerns with the reliability of the data in the published article.
The TEM images in Fig. 1e and 7b represent duplication of data, given that these experiments were reported under different reaction conditions.
In addition, the TEM images in Fig. 1 and 7a–d duplicate data in another publication, but represent different materials.1
Given the significance of the concerns about the validity of the data, the findings presented in this paper are no longer reliable.
The authors initially requested to retract this article but they have not commented upon the wording of the retraction notice.
Signed: Philippa Ross, Executive Editor, Analyst
Date: 21st September 2020
References
- R. Gui and X. An, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 20959–20969 RSC.
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