"Fig. 1. ...(D) Room temperature magnetization curves of BMNPs and MIP@BMNP"
Please compare with (for instance) "Figure 3.(C) Magnetic hysteresis loop of Gd-SPIONs and AuNFs@MPS" in Roy et al. (2017), https://pubpeer.com/publications/33CB940D42723BAB8B4F737B434E86#5
"Fig. 2. (A) TEM image of BMNPs, (B) TEM and (C) HR-TEM images of MIP@BMNPs. FE-SEM images of (D) bare PGE;..."
Please compare with Karfa et al (2016), https://pubpeer.com/publications/566D5B8BFDB88B18700B37B243BA3F#1
"Fig. 1. ... HR-TEM images of silane@CDs at low (C) and high (D) magnifications."
"Fig. 2. (A) TEM image of BMNPs, (B) TEM and (C) HR-TEM images of MIP@BMNPs. FE-SEM images of (D) bare PGE; (E) silane-modified PGE; (F) adduct polymer; and (G) MIP@BMNPs-modified PGEs."
The silane-modified Pencil Graphite Electrode also appears in a different set of experiments as a bare PGE. https://pubpeer.com/publications/3667BADC5E6D7654728CFA6953DD91#1
"Fig. 2. SEM images of (A) bare, (B) silane, (C) adduct, (D) MIP (after template removal),... pencil graphite electrode."
Retracted. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956566315301755
"This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief following concerns raised by a reader.
The article uses an electron micrograph identical to another publication.
Fig. 2B is identical to Fig. 1C published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics Volume 78, 15 April 2016, Pages 454-463, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2015.11.092.
In addition, the extraordinary similarities observed between the data presented in Fig. 1D and in Fig. 3C in ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2017, 3 (9), pp 2120–2135, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00089, Fig. 4A in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Volume 142, 1 June 2016, Pages 248–258 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2016.02.053 and Fig. 4C in Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Volume 97, 15 November 2017, Pages 208–217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2017.06.003 are highly unlikely.
This problem with the data casts doubt on all the data, and accordingly also the conclusions based on that data, in this publication."
Also from the publisher: "this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process."
One down, several dozen to go from this group.
They have highlighted serious failures of the submission and review processes in several materials science - chemistry journals, yet continue to publish apace.
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