Abstract
At the request of the Journal Editor and SAGE Publishing, the following article has been retracted:
Manju P, Krishnan PSG, Nayak S. Evaluation of intercalation and interaction in in-situ polymerized PLA-HNT bionanocomposites. Polymers and Polymer Composites. 2021;29(6):684-695. doi:10.1177/0967391120927799
A reader contacted the Journal Editor, citing concerns that this article has significant unattributed overlap of text and figures from the following articles:
Manju, P., Krishnan, P.S.G. & Nayak, S.K. In-situ polymerised PLA-SEP bionanocomposites: effect of silanol groups on the properties of PLA. J Polym Res 27, 134 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-020-02098-1
P. Manju, P. Santhana Gopala Krishnan* and S. K. Nayak. Effect of morphology and hydroxyl groups of different nanoparticles on the properties of PLA bionanocomposites. Materials Today: Proceedings 2021, 41(5), 1169-1174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.508
The authors explained that the images differed due to scale adjustments and the text was unattributed as the other article was not published at the time of writing. The Journal Editor has determined this response unsatisfactory. Due to concerns about text overlap and reuse of previously published images, the article has been retracted.
The authors disagreed with the retraction.