In the research article, “A universal cooperative assembly-directed method for coating of mesoporous TiO2 nano shells with enhanced lithium storage properties” (1), we reported a universal cooperative assembly method for growing mesostructured TiO2 shells on diverse functional particles. Recently, we found two duplicated images (Fig. 3A, Fig.S17A) in two figures that were published previously in two papers by B. Y. Guan et al. (2, 3). Because of this, our confidence on the validity of the data in the paper is largely compromised. Therefore, we wish to retract this research article promptly. We sincerely apologize that these errors were not discovered before the manuscript was published. All of the authors have agreed the paper should be retracted, except Dr. B. Y. Guan who opposed this retraction.
References and Notes
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