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Retraction note to: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (2022) 33:20556–20576 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08869-4
The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article after irregularities were noted in the SEM image reported in Fig. 6b:
There is evidence of a potential splice and internal duplication within this image.
Part of this image appears highly similar to an SEM image included in a paper published shortly after this one with common authors [1]. In that paper, the image represents a different material captured at a different magnification.
The Editor-in-Chief no longer has confidence in the reliability of the data reported.
Mohamed Abd El-Aal, Roaa Mogharbel, Mohamed Zoromba, Samia M. Ibrahim, Nasser Mohamed Farhan, and Ahmed Al-Hossainy disagree with this retraction. The remaining authors did not respond to correspondence from the publisher about this retraction.
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Mogharbel, R.T., Al-Hossainy, A.F., Ibrahim, A. et al. Retraction Note: Synthesis, structural and optical characterizations of ZrO2-bromothymol blue nanocomposite thin-film [ZrO2+BTB]C and its application: experimental and TDD-DFT computations. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 35, 285 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-024-12073-x
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