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Retraction: Enhanced adsorption of ionizable aromatic compounds on humic acid-coated carbonaceous adsorbents
Yubing Sun,
Changlun Chen,
Dadong Shao,
Jiaxing Li,
Xiaoli Tan,
Guixia Zhao,
Shubin Yang and
Xiangke Wang*
Key Laboratory of Novel Thin Film Solar Cells, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1126, Hefei 230031, P. R. China. E-mail: xkwang@ipp.ac.cn; Fax: +86 5515591310; Tel: +86 551 5592788
First published on 23rd April 2020
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Enhanced adsorption of ionizable aromatic compounds on humic acid-coated carbonaceous adsorbents’ by Yubing Sun et al., RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 10359–10364, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA21713A.
The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the named authors, hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to concerns with the reliability of the data in the published article.
Repeating fragments can be observed in the XRD spectrum for GONs in Fig. 1C, which indicates that it has been manipulated. In addition, there are unexpected similarities in the baseline of the XRD data presented for MWCNTs and AC (Fig. 1C) in the 32.5–40° and 45–57.5° regions.
Given the significance of the concern about the validity of the data, the findings presented in this paper are no longer reliable.
Signed: Yubing Sun, Dadong Shao, Guixia Zhao, Shubin Yang and Xiangke Wang
Date: 27th March 2020
Changlun Chen, Jiaxing Li and Xiaoli Tan were contacted but did not respond.
Retraction endorsed by Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances
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