Retracted Note: Hydrothermal synthesis of hierarchical WO3 nanostructures for dye-sensitized solar cells (Applied Physics A, (2014), 116, 2, (781-788), 10.1007/s00339-013-8148-7)
Rashad MM, Shalan AE (2025)
Publication Type: Journal article, Erratum
Publication year: 2025
Journal
Book Volume: 131
Article Number: 589
Journal Issue: 7
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-025-08725-2
Abstract
The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article because of concerns regarding the figures presented in this work. These concerns call into question the article’s overall scientific soundness. An investigation conducted after its publication discovered the following issues: the Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectra for tungsten oxide presented in Figure 4d appears to overlap with the EDX spectra for magnesium-doped titanium oxide presented in Figure 3b in [1]; the three transmittance curves for simple and annealed samples of tungsten oxide presented in Figure 5 appear to be identical; the Incident-Photon-to-Current-Efficiency (IPCE) spectra for annealed samples of tungsten oxide presented in Figure 7 appear to be identical to the IPCE spectra for samples of magnesium- and cobalt-doped titanium oxide presented in Figure 6 in [1]. The Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the integrity of the research presented in this article. The authors have not responded to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction.
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APA:
Rashad, M.M., & Shalan, A.E. (2025). Retracted Note: Hydrothermal synthesis of hierarchical WO3 nanostructures for dye-sensitized solar cells (Applied Physics A, (2014), 116, 2, (781-788), 10.1007/s00339-013-8148-7). Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, 131(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-025-08725-2
MLA:
Rashad, M. M., and A. E. Shalan. "Retracted Note: Hydrothermal synthesis of hierarchical WO3 nanostructures for dye-sensitized solar cells (Applied Physics A, (2014), 116, 2, (781-788), 10.1007/s00339-013-8148-7)." Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing 131.7 (2025).
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