Retraction Note to: Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society (2020) 17:2233–2242 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13738-020-01916-z

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding apparent duplicated patterns and splicing marks in the AFM images in Fig. 4. The authors have not responded to the journal's request to provide the raw data underlying this figure. The Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the presented data.

None of the authors have responded to any correspondence from the editor or publisher about this retraction.