Retraction notice to “Rationally construction of 2D & 3D material on h-BN @ SnO2/TiO2 micro-sphere enables for photocatalytic debasement of textile cloth dyes in waste water treatment” [Environ. Res. 251-P2 (2024) 118728]

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor. Figure 5c is an EDX spectrum which has suspicious similarities to EDX spectra appearing in Environmental Research, 252 (2024) 118785, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118785 (Fig 6b); Environmental Research, 242 (2024) 117761, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.117761 (Fig 4c); Environmental Research, 242 (2024) 117625, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.117625 (Fig. 6c). The corresponding author was contacted for comment about these concerns but was unable to provide a suitable explanation. The Editors have therefore lost confidence in the reliability of the findings presented in this article as a whole. Additionally, the photo current raw data provided by the authors was shown to be different to the published data in Figure 8a. Furthermore, Figure 3 plagiarised three images from Figure 2 of the Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 99 (2022) 100575, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jics.2022.100575. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process. For all of the above reasons, the Editors have lost confidence in the reliability of the findings presented in this article as a whole and are retracting it.