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12/1/2022
This article was retracted on 1 December 2022
The Editor-in-Chief and the Publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the Publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation’s findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. Yousaf Ali Khan, Adel Thaljaoui, Wathek Chammam and Syed Zaheer Abbas disagree with this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for Han Lai. The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as Supplementary Information.
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The Editor-in-Chief and the Publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the Publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation’s findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. Yousaf Ali Khan, Adel Thaljaoui, Wathek Chammam and Syed Zaheer Abbas disagree with this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for Han Lai. The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as Supplementary Information.
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