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Retraction: Droplet fluid infusion into a dust layer in relation to self-cleaning
Ghassan Hassan, Bekir Sami Yilbas, Hussain Al-Qahtani
TL;DR
This retraction notice announces the withdrawal of a 2020 paper on droplet fluid infusion and self-cleaning.
Contribution
The paper is being retracted, indicating it should no longer be considered valid.
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The paper titled 'Droplet fluid infusion into a dust layer in relation to self-cleaning' is retracted.
The retraction was published in RSC Advances in 2020.
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Droplet fluid infusion into a dust layer in relation to self-cleaning’ by Ghassan Hassan et al., RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 32034–32042, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA05700B.
- —King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals10.13039/501100004055
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TopicsIntravenous Infusion Technology and Safety · Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies · Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation
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