Correction: Application of [PVI-SO3H]NO3 as a novel polymeric nitrating agent with ionic tags in preparation of high-energetic materials

Correction for ‘Application of [PVI-SO₃H]NO₃ as a novel polymeric nitrating agent with ionic tags in preparation of high-energetic materials’ by Hassan Sepehrmansourie et al., RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 8367–8374, DOI: 10.1039/D1RA00651G.

The authors regret that incorrect details were given for ref. 16 in the original article. The correct version of ref. 16 is given below as ref. 1.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Effects of water,ammonia and formic acid on HO2 + Cl reactions under atmospheric conditions: competition between a stepwise route and one elementary step

Correction for ‘Effects of water, ammonia and formic acid on HO₂ + Cl reactions under atmospheric conditions: competition between a stepwise route and one elementary step’ by Tianlei Zhang et al., RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 21544–21556.

The authors regret that incorrect details were given for ref. 52 in the original article. The correct version of ref. 52 is given below as ref. 1.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Scalable synthesis and structural characterization of reversible KLK6 inhibitors

Correction for ‘Scalable synthesis and structural characterization of reversible KLK6 inhibitors’ by Andreas Baumann et al., RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 26989–26993, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2RA04670A.

The authors regret that incorrect details were given for note 20 in the original article. The correct version of note 20 is given below.It appears as if compound 13, or more likely its enantiomer, was prepared in ref. 18 (personal communication with A. W. H. Speed).The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Homo-condensation of acetophenones toward imidazothiones

Correction for ‘Homo-condensation of acetophenones toward imidazothiones’ by Phuc Hoang Pham et al., RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 40225–40228, DOI: 10.1039/D0RA03047C.

The authors regret the omission of two references, shown below as ref. 1(a) and (b), which should have appeared as ref. 7(a) and (b).On page 40227, at the end of the paragraph which starts “With the results in hand, we proposed a possible mechanism for the annulation (Scheme 5)…” the following sentence should have been added:“It should be noted that Asinger and co-workers reported a similar transformation using ammonia, instead of ammonium acetate, that occurred in methanol solvent.¹ For that reason, an alternative mechanism should not be excluded.”The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Electrochemical behaviour and analysis of Zn and Zn–Ni alloy anti-corrosive coatings deposited from citrate baths

Correction for ‘Electrochemical behaviour and analysis of Zn and Zn–Ni alloy anti-corrosive coatings deposited from citrate baths’ by Shams Anwar et al., RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 28861–28873, DOI: 10.1039/C8RA04650F.

The authors regret a mistake in the author names of ref. 44. The correct reference is shown below as ref. 1.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Chemical stability and interactions in a new antihypertensive mixture containing indapamide and dihydralazine using FT-IR,HPLC and LC-MS methods

Correction for ‘Chemical stability and interactions in a new antihypertensive mixture containing indapamide and dihydralazine using FT-IR, HPLC and LC-MS methods’ by Anna Gumieniczek et al., RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 36076–36089.

The authors regret that incorrect details were given for ref. 19 in the original article. The correct version of ref. 19 is shown in the references section below.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Hydrogel microfibers with perfusable folded channels for tissue constructs with folded morphology

Correction for ‘Hydrogel microfibers with perfusable folded channels for tissue constructs with folded morphology’ by Yupeng Liu et al., RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 23475–23480.

The authors regret that incorrect details were given for ref. 49 in the original article. The correct version of ref. 49 is given below.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Shedding light on the structural properties of lipid bilayers using molecular dynamics simulation: a review study

Correction for ‘Shedding light on the structural properties of lipid bilayers using molecular dynamics simulation: a review study’ by Sajad Moradi et al., RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 4644–4658.

The authors regret that incorrect details were given for ref. 22, 26 and 81 in the original article. The correct versions of ref. 22, 26 and 81 are given below.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Biological behavior exploration of a paclitaxel-eluting poly-l-lactide-coated Mg–Zn–Y–Nd alloy intestinal stent in vivo

Correction for ‘Biological behavior exploration of a paclitaxel-eluting poly-l-lactide-coated Mg–Zn–Y–Nd alloy intestinal stent in vivo’ by Zhanhui Wang et al., RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 15079–15090. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra10156j

The authors regret that incorrect details were given for ref. 52 in the original article. The correct version of ref. 52 is given below as ref. 1.In the sentence beginning “Stephen et al. found that…” on page 15086, the corrected sentence should read as follows: “Shi et al. found that a magnesium-based drug delivery system had a stronger long-term inhibitory effect on the proliferation of SMCs cultured in vitro compared to stainless steel, which may be related to the degradation of magnesium alloy matrix greatly accelerating and improving the pharmacokinetics of drug release in vitro.⁵²”The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Unveiling concentration effects on the structural and optoelectronic characteristics of Zn1−xCdxS (x = 0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1) cubic semiconductors: a theoretical study

Correction for ‘Unveiling concentration effects on the structural and optoelectronic characteristics of Zn_1−xCd_xS (x = 0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1) cubic semiconductors: a theoretical study’ by Muhammad Aamir Iqbal et al., RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 22783–22791, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2RA03850A.

The authors regret that incorrect details were given for ref. 4 in the original article. The correct version of ref. 4 is given below.M. A. Iqbal, M. Malik, W. Shahid, S. Irfan, A. C. Alguno, K. Morsy, R. Y. Capangpangan, P. V. Pham and J. R. Choi, Ab-initio study of pressure influenced elastic, mechanical and optoelectronic properties of Cd_0.25Zn_0.75Se alloy for space photovoltaics. Sci. Rep., 2022, 12, 12978.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Ultra-wideband manipulation of electromagnetic waves by bilayer scattering engineered gradient metasurface

Correction for ‘Ultra-wideband manipulation of electromagnetic waves by bilayer scattering engineered gradient metasurface’ by Yinghui Guo et al., RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 13061–13066.

The journal citations in ref. 10 and 11 were incorrect in the published article. The corrected references are shown below as ref. 1 and 2, respectively.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: A simple and straightforward synthesis of phenyl isothiocyanates,symmetrical and unsymmetrical thioureas under ball milling

Correction for ‘A simple and straightforward synthesis of phenyl isothiocyanates, symmetrical and unsymmetrical thioureas under ball milling’ by Ze Zhang et al., RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 16940–16944, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA43252A.

The authors regret that it was not clear in the original article that part of the graphical abstract image had been reproduced from the graphical abstract of an earlier ChemComm paper.¹ Although the ChemComm article was cited as ref. 15b, and here as ref. 1, it was not made clear that some of the image was reproduced from this article.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Retraction: Olefin epoxidation with chiral salen Mn(iii) immobilized on ZnPS-PVPA upon alkyldiamine

Retraction of ‘Olefin epoxidation with chiral salen Mn(iii) immobilized on ZnPS-PVPA upon alkyldiamine’ by J. Huang et al., RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 19507–19514, DOI: 10.1039/C6RA00002A.

The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the authors, hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to extensive overlap with other published articles by these authors, including the text, data and figures published in ref. 1, which was not cited in this article. Although there are sections of original work, there are significant portions of text overlap, particularly in the Results and discussion section. Fig. 1, 3, 4 and 5, Tables 1 and 2 and Schemes 1 and 2 in the RSC Advances article have also been reproduced from ref. 1.Signed: J. Huang, D. W. Qi, J. L. Cai and X. H. ChenDate: 19^th November 2020Retraction endorsed by Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances     

Retraction: Fabrication of hollow CoS1.097 prisms toward supercapactior performance

Retraction of ‘Fabrication of hollow CoS_1.097 prisms toward supercapactior performance’ by Ruili Zhang et al., RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 10814–10819.

We, the named authors, hereby wholly retract this RSC Advances article due to extensive overlap with the text, data and figures published in ref. 1, which means that this RSC Advances article is redundant. All the figures and tables in this RSC Advances article have been reproduced from ref. 1.The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience to readers.Signed: Ruili Zhang and Ping Yang.Date: 8^th July 2019.We do not have current contact details for the second author of the article, Yuntao Yang, as he has graduated and therefore has not been able to comment on the retraction.Retraction endorsed by Andrew Shore, Executive Editor, RSC Advances.     

Retraction: Salvianolic acid B inhibits inflammatory response and cell apoptosis via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in IL-1β-induced osteoarthritis chondrocytes

Retraction of ‘Salvianolic acid B inhibits inflammatory response and cell apoptosis via the PI3K/Akt signalling pathway in IL-1β-induced osteoarthritis chondrocytes’ by Bin Zhu et al., RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 36422–36429, DOI: 10.1039/C8RA02418A.

The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to concerns with the reliability of the data.The images in the article were screened by an image integrity expert who confirmed that some of the western blots images in this paper had been duplicated in other articles. There are no common authors between the papers.The Col II band in Fig. 3B of this paper has been duplicated as the p62 band in Fig. 4A of ref. 1.One of the blots in the control band (GAPDH) in Fig. 3D has also been reused as a blot in Fig. 2C of ref. 1 and in Fig. 4A of ref. 2.The authors were asked to provide the raw data for this article but did not respond. Given the significance of the concerns about the validity of the data, and the lack of raw data, the findings presented in this paper are not reliable.The authors have been informed but have not responded to any correspondence regarding the retraction.Signed: Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC AdvancesDate: 7^th January 2021     

Correction: A highly selective fluorescent probe for human NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (hNQO1) detection and imaging in living tumor cells

Correction for ‘A highly selective fluorescent probe for human NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (hNQO1) detection and imaging in living tumor cells’ by Ya Zhu et al., RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 26729–26733.

The authors regret that some articles reporting probes for detecting human NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 were not cited in the original article. The missing references are listed below as ref. 1–6, and should be cited in the original paper at the end of the following sentence on page 26729:Herein, we designed and synthesized a novel fluorescent probe 1 for detection of hNQO1 based on TCF-OH as a chromophore and quinone propionic acid (QPA) as a recognition group.^1–6The authors sincerely apologise for this oversight.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Retraction: Structural characterization of centipede oligopeptides and capability detection in human small cell lung carcinoma: inducing apoptosis

Retraction of ‘Structural characterization of centipede oligopeptides and capability detection in human small cell lung carcinoma: inducing apoptosis’ by JingQuan Zhao et al., RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 10927–10936, https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RA09018A.

The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to a significant amount of unattributed text overlap throughout the article, and particularly with ref. 1 in the Results and discussion section and ref. 2 in the Conclusion section.Jie Liu opposes the retraction. The other authors have been informed but have not responded to any correspondence regarding the retraction.Signed: Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC AdvancesDate: 29^th March 2022     

Correction: Ultrasensitive fluorescent aptasensor for CRP detection based on the RNase H assisted DNA recycling signal amplification strategy

Correction for ‘Ultrasensitive fluorescent aptasensor for CRP detection based on the RNase H assisted DNA recycling signal amplification strategy’ by Zhongzhi Liu et al., RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 11960–11967, https://doi.org/10.1039/C9RA01352K.

The authors are publishing this correction to draw the reader’s attention to their closely related papers that should have been cited as ref. 42 and 43 in this RSC Advances article. These are given below as ref. 1 and 2, respectively.On page 11963, a citation to ref. 42 should be added to the end of the sentence beginning “The fluorescence intensity…”. Therefore, the sentence should be changed to “The fluorescence intensity and the value of F₁/F₀ were selected to evaluate the effects of the aforementioned reaction conditions on the sensing performance of the developed strategy, where F₁ and F₀ were the fluorescence intensities of the solutions in the presence and absence of CRP, respectively.⁴²”On page 11965–11966, a citation to ref. 43 should be added at the end of the sentence beginning “The detection of CRP…”. Therefore, the sentence should be changed to “The detection of CRP in biological samples by spiking in CRP to human serum, urine and saliva diluted to 10% with buffer solution with the final concentration of 10 ng mL⁻¹ were performed.⁴³”The authors also regret that there are portions of unattributed text overlap in the Introduction, Results and discussion and Conclusion sections with other papers, including ref. 42 and 43.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.     

Correction: Nano zero valent iron (nZVI) particles for the removal of heavy metals (Cd2+, Cu2+ and Pb2+) from aqueous solutions

Correction for ‘Nano zero valent iron (nZVI) particles for the removal of heavy metals (Cd²⁺, Cu²⁺ and Pb²⁺) from aqueous solutions’ by Mekonnen Maschal Tarekegn et al., RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 18539–18551. DOI: 10.1039/D1RA01427G.

The authors regret that reference 48 was incorrect. The correct reference is given below as reference 1.¹The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.