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Retraction: Silicone oil impregnated nano silica modified glass surface and influence of environmental dust particles on optical transmittance
Bekir Sami Yilbas, Muhammad Rizwan Yousaf, Abdullah Al-Sharafi, Haider Ali, Fahad Al-Sulaiman, Numan Abu-Dheir, Mazen Khaled, Nasser Al-Aqeeli
TL;DR
This retraction notice addresses a previously published paper on how silicone oil and nano silica affect glass surfaces and optical transmittance in the presence of dust.
Contribution
The paper is being retracted, indicating a significant issue with its content or findings.
Findings
The paper originally investigated the modification of glass surfaces with silicone oil and nano silica.
It examined the impact of environmental dust on optical transmittance through these modified surfaces.
The retraction suggests the findings may be unreliable or invalid.
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Silicone oil impregnated nano silica modified glass surface and influence of environmental dust particles on optical transmittance’ by Bekir Sami Yilbas et al., RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 29762–29771, https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RA03392C.
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TopicsSurface Roughness and Optical Measurements · Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry · Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry
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