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Retraction: Enhancement of the photocatalytic activity of rhenium(I) complexes by encapsulation in light-harvesting soft nanotubes
Naohiro
Kameta
*a,
Masaru
Aoyagi
b and
Masumi
Asakawa
c
aNanomaterials Research Institute, Department of Materials and Chemistry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan. E-mail: n-kameta@aist.go.jp; Fax: +81-29-861-4545; Tel: +81-29-861-4478
bResearch Institute for Sustainable Chemistry, Department of Materials and Chemistry, AIST, Kagamiyama 3-11-32, Higashi Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan
cInterdisciplinary Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan
First published on 18th October 2024
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Enhancement of the photocatalytic activity of rhenium(I) complexes by encapsulation in light-harvesting soft nanotubes’ by Naohiro Kameta et al., Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 10116–10119, https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC05337A.
We the named authors hereby wholly retract this Chemical Communications article due to the fact that the paper has wrong electron microscopy images in Fig. 2b and c on the part of the first author, who is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Fig. 2b and c had incorrect scale bars, which were approximately 6 and 2 times longer than the actual lengths. Such errors in the scale bars would be inconsistent with the description of the diameter sizes of the nanotubes.
The authors respectfully retract this paper, because these events were determined to amount to scientific misconduct and the retraction of this paper was recommended by AIST. AIST verified that the first author was responsible for the misconducts and no other co-authors were engaged in them.
Signed: Masaru Aoyagi, Naohiro Kameta, Masumi Asakawa
Date: 4th October 2024
Retraction endorsed by Richard Kelly, Executive Editor, Chemical Communications
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