RETRACTED ARTICLE: Ir-decorated gallium nitride nanotubes as a chemical sensor for recognition of mesalamine drug: a DFT study

Abstract

We, the Editor and Publisher of the journal Molecular Simulation, have retracted the following article:

Dmitry Olegovich Bokov, Abduladheem Turki Jalil, Forat H. Alsultany, Mustafa Z. Mahmoud, Wanich Suksatan, Supat Chupradit, Maytham T. Qasim & Parvaneh Delir Kheirollahi Nezhad (2022) Ir-decorated gallium nitride nanotubes as a chemical sensor for recognition of mesalamine drug: a DFT study, Molecular Simulation, 48:5, 438-447, DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2021.2025234

Since publication, significant concerns have been raised about the use of irrelevant references, the authorship, source of this article, and the significant similarity in the results and conclusion of this article to other sources:

• A.A. Menazea, N.S. Awwad, H.A. Ibrahium, P. Delerkheiroehin, H.E. Ali. Ru-decorated gallium nitride nanotubes as chemical sensor for detection of purinethol drug: a density functional theory study Phys. Scripta, 96 (12) (2021), Article 125870. DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/ac3f68

• Cao Y, Farahmand M, Ahmadi R, Heravi MR, Ahmadi S, Mahmoud MZ. Unraveling the effect of Ti doping on the sensing properties of AlN nanotubes toward acrylonitrile gas. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 2022 Mar 1;137:109161. (Available online from 23 December 2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2021.109161

• Cao, Y., Vahid, A.F., Sadeghzadeh, F.S., Soleimanpour, H., Ahmadi, S., and Heravi, M.R.P., 2021. A DFT study on the Ag-decorated AlP nanosheets as chemical sensor for recognition of adrucil drug. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1206, p.113484. DOI:10.1016/j.comptc.2021.113484

When approached for an explanation, the explanation and supporting information provided by the corresponding author did not address the concerns raised. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article. The authors have been informed and do not agree with the retraction.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions. The retracted articles will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but they will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.

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Statement of Retraction: Ir-decorated gallium nitride nanotubes as a chemical sensor for recognition of mesalamine drug: a DFT study