We, the Editor and Publishers of Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews, are retracting the following article which was published on 19 July 2016:
Aumber Abbas, Mudaser Ullah, Qasim Ali, Imran Zahid, Saleem Abbas & Xianli Wang (2016) “An overview of CO2 electroreduction into hydrocarbons and liquid fuels on nanostructured copper catalysts”, Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews, 9 (3), 166-178, DOI: 10.1080/17518253.2016.1188162
This manuscript was originally submitted on 18 January 2016, and accepted, after revisions, on 6 May 2016.
Since publication Taylor & Francis have been apprised that the research findings reported within the article are the intellectual property of Shandong University, Jinan, China, and were published by the lead authors without permission from the University. Moreover there are inaccuracies and irregularities in the attributions of authorship on this paper.
Both actions constitute breaches of warranties made by the authors in the author publishing agreement. Taylor & Francis note we received, peer-reviewed, accepted, and published the article in good faith based on these warranties, and censure these actions.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as RETRACTED.