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Retraction: Water droplet on inclined dusty hydrophobic surface: influence of droplet volume on environmental dust particles removal
Ghassan Hassan, Bekir Sami Yilbas, Abdullah Al-Sharafi, H. Al-Qahtani, Nasser Al-Aqeeli
TL;DR
This retraction notice announces the withdrawal of a 2019 study on how water droplet volume affects dust removal on hydrophobic surfaces.
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The paper is retracted, indicating its findings are no longer considered valid or trustworthy.
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The original study was retracted by the authors and the journal.
No new scientific contributions are made in this retraction notice.
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Water droplet on inclined dusty hydrophobic surface: influence of droplet volume on environmental dust particles removal’ by Ghassan Hassan et al., RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 3582–3596, https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RA10092F.
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TopicsAerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation · Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity · 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