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Retraction: Environmental dust removal from inclined hydrophobic glass surface: avalanche influence on dynamics of dust particles
Bekir Sami Yilbas, Abdullah Al-Sharafi, Haider Ali, Nasser Al-Aqeeli, Hussain Al-Qahtani, Fahad Al-Sulaiman, Numan Abu-Dheir, Ghassan Abdelmagid, Ali Elkhazraji
TL;DR
This retraction notice addresses an article about dust removal from hydrophobic surfaces and its environmental implications.
Contribution
The paper's original contribution regarding dust dynamics on hydrophobic surfaces is retracted due to undisclosed issues.
Findings
The original study's findings on dust particle behavior on inclined surfaces are no longer considered valid.
The retraction highlights the importance of transparency and accuracy in scientific reporting.
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Environmental dust removal from inclined hydrophobic glass surface: avalanche influence on dynamics of dust particles’ by Bekir Sami Yilbas et al., RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 33775–33785, https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RA07503D.
- —King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals10.13039/501100004055
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Taxonomy
TopicsSurface Modification and Superhydrophobicity · Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation · Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
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