Recusal of “Synthesis of Magnetite Particles with PDLLA Corona” (Jing Tian, Ya Kai Feng and Yong Shen Xu. J. Polym. Res. 2006; 13:343-347, DOI: 10.1007/s10965-006-9049-7).

The publisher would like to announce that part of this paper has been published previously. The authors have infringed the normal professional ethical codes by plagiarizing another publication: “The Synthesis of Magnetic Core-Shell Nanoparticles by Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Polymerization of ɛ-Caprolactone” (Annette M. Schmidt. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2005; 26:93-97).