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Retraction: Dust removal from a hydrophobic surface by rolling fizzy water droplets
Bekir Sami Yilbas, Ghassan Hassan, Hussain Al-Qahtani, Saeed Bahatab, Ahmet Z. Sahin, Abdullah Al-Sharafi, Abba Abdulhamid Abubakar
TL;DR
This paper is a retraction of a 2020 study on using fizzy water droplets to remove dust from hydrophobic surfaces.
Contribution
The retraction addresses issues with the original study's findings and conclusions.
Findings
The original paper's claims about dust removal using fizzy water droplets are being retracted.
The retraction highlights the need for corrections or clarifications in the original research.
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Dust removal from a hydrophobic surface by rolling fizzy water droplets’ by Bekir Sami Yilbas et al., RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 19811–19821, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA03215H.
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TopicsSurface Modification and Superhydrophobicity · Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation · Aeolian processes and effects
The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to concerns with the reliability of the data.
Several concerns with the data have been identified within a group of articles by the same author group.
The authors have not been able to satisfactorily address these concerns.
Given the significance of these concerns, the Editor has lost confidence that the findings presented in this paper are reliable.
The authors were informed about the retraction of the article. Bekir Sami Yilbas has not agreed with the decision, the other authors have not responded.
Bekir Sami Yilbas states that authors disagree with the retraction and state that all figures were generated by the authors, and the reuse of one or two surface-characterization images neither constitutes duplicated data being presented as new nor compromises the validity of the findings, since the scientific discussion in each paper is supported by multiple figures.
Signed: Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances
Date: 30th January 2026