Retraction Note to: J Mater Sci: Mater Med (2015) 26:53DOI 10.1007/s10856-014-5371-5

The article entitled “Effect of coupling asynchronous acoustoelectric effects on the corrosion behavior, microhardness and biocompatibility of biomedical titanium alloy strips”, published in Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, Volume 26: 53 (DOI 10.1007/s10856-014-5371-5), is hereby retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and with the agreement of the authors.

Following a complaint about the republishing of unreferenced data in several journals including Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the following issues were detected: there are textual similarities and duplication of images in the above-mentioned paper and in “The effect of electropulsing induced gradient topographic oxide coating of Ti-Al-V alloy strips on the fibroblast adhesion and growth”, authored by Xiaoxin Ye, Zion Tse, Guoyi Tang and Guolin Song, and published in Surface and Coatings Technology, notably Figures 2 and 3(a) in the latter article appear as Figures 5 and 7 in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine paper without reference to the original publication.

In addition, similarities in other figures (for example, Figures 8 and 9) have been noted with a number of other publications. For example:

Effect of electroplastic rolling on deformability, mechanical property and microstructure evolution of Ti-6Al-4V alloy strip, Xiaoxin Ye, Zion T.H. Tse, Guoyi Tanga, Guolin Song, Materials Characterization, Volume 98, December 2014, Pages 147–161.

Effect of electropulsing treatment and ultrasonic striking treatment on the mechanical properties and microstructure of biomedical ti-6Al-4V alloy, Xiaoxin Ye, Yongda Ye, Guoyi Tang, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Volume 40, December 2014, Pages 287–296.