Journal of Nanotechnology has retracted the article titled “Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Polyalthia longifolia Leaf Extract along with D-Sorbitol: Study of Antibacterial Activity” [1]. As raised on PubPeer, the article was found to contain images with signs of duplication and manipulation in Figures 3 and 4. The background of Figure 3 shows repeating features. In Figure 4, (b) in the top row is identical to (a) in the bottom row. Additionally, (b) and (c) in the bottom row of Figure 4 are identical to (c) and (b) in Figure 7 in another article by the same group of authors [2].
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Retracted: Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Polyalthia longifolia Leaf Extract along with D-Sorbitol: Study of Antibacterial Activity
Received17 Sept 2018
Accepted17 Sept 2018
Published07 Mar 2019
References
S. Kaviya, J. Santhanalakshmi, and B. Viswanathan, “Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Polyalthia longifolia leaf extract along with D-sorbitol: study of antibacterial activity,” Journal of Nanotechnology, vol. 2011, Article ID 152970, 5 pages, 2011.
View at: Publisher Site | Google ScholarS. Kaviya, J. Santhanalakshmi, B. Viswanathan, J. Muthumary, and K. Srinivasan, “Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using Citrus sinensis peel extract and its antibacterial activity,” Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 594–598, 2011, ISSN 1386-1425.
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