Journal of Nanotechnology
Volume 2019 (2019), Article ID 1613475, 1 page
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1613475

Retraction

Retracted: Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Polyalthia longifolia Leaf Extract along with D-Sorbitol: Study of Antibacterial Activity

Journal of Nanotechnology

Received 17 September 2018; Accepted 17 September 2018; Published 7 March 2019

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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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S. 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.