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Retraction: Temperature-regulated polymerization and swelling/collapsing/flocculation properties of hybrid nanospheres with magnetic cores and thermo/pH-sensitive nanogel shells
Laura Fisher
Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK. E-mail: advances-rsc@rsc.org
First published on 19th October 2020
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Temperature-regulated polymerization and swelling/collapsing/flocculation properties of hybrid nanospheres with magnetic cores and thermo/pH-sensitive nanogel shells’ by Rijun Gui et al., RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 2797–2806, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA43919D.
The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to concerns with the reliability of the data in the published article.
The TEM image in Fig. 2a duplicates data in another publication, but reported as different materials.1
The TEM image in Fig. 2c duplicates data in another publication, but reported as a different material.2
Given the number and significance of the concerns about the validity of the data, the findings presented in this paper are no longer reliable.
Rijun Gui opposes this retraction. Hui Jin was contacted but did not respond.
Signed: Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances
Date: 21st September 2020
References
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- R. Gui, A. Wan and H. Jin, Analyst, 2013, 138, 5956–5964 RSC.
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