RETRACTED: Enhanced photocatalytic efficiencies in a bifunctional ZnO/PVA nanocomposites derived from Capparis zeylanica L

• Published in: Environmental research 2023-09, Vol.233, Article 116482
• Main Authors: Subramaniyan, Prathipkumar, Subramaniyan, Vijayakumar, Renganathan, Sangeetha, Elavarasan, Vidhya, Al-Ansari, Mysoon M., Aldawsari, Majdoleen, Kala, Praseetha Prabhakaran, Kim, Woong
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0013-9351
• DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116482

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief. The authors have plagiarized text and figures from a paper that had already appeared in Rev. Adv. Mater. Sci., 59 (2020) 464–476, https://doi.org/10.1515/rams-2020-0021 and a figure from Sci. Rep., 11 (2021) 11404 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90846-8. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process. Furthermore, the editors have serious concerns about the integrity of the FTIR trace in Fig. 6 of the article, and as such the editors no longer have confidence in this paper and are retracting it. Finally, unauthorised authorship changes were made to this paper at Revision 1, with three authors being added to the paper. These three authors were then removed at Revision 2 and replaced by Mysoon M. Al-Ansari, Majdoleen Aldawsari and Woong Kim. No explanations were given for any of these changes, nor were they approved by the editor. Such authorship changes breach the policies of the journal and as a result, the editors no longer have confidence in this paper and are retracting it. The journal apologises for not having identified the problematic authorship changes during the review process and for any resulting inconvenience.