Retraction: Engineering the optical properties of nickel sulphide thin films by zinc integration for photovoltaic applications
Junaid Younus, Warda Shahzad, Bushra Ismail, Tanzeela Fazal, Mazloom Shah, Shahid Iqbal, Ahmed Hussain Jawhari, Nasser S. Awwad, Hala A. Ibrahium · 2026
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Junaid Younus is the lead author of a 2023 RSC Advances study on tuning nickel sulphide films with zinc for solar uses. The Royal Society of Chemistry wholly retracted that study in a 2026 notice. The publisher states that concerns over the reliability of the data forced the withdrawal.
Two microscope images in the paper had already appeared elsewhere, described there as a different material. Two pairs of light-absorbance charts also looked strongly alike across figures that should have shown separate results. The authors replied and supplied new data, but the response did not settle the concerns. The original raw data could not be produced, so the retraction covers the whole article.
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| CREATOR | Junaid Younus, Warda Shahzad, Bushra Ismail, Tanzeela Fazal, Mazloom Shah, Shahid Iqbal, Ahmed Hussain Jawhari, Nasser S. Awwad, Hala A. Ibrahium |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1795 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |