Retraction of “Experimental and Computational Study of Zr and CNC-Doped MnO₂ Nanorods for Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Activity”

The Editor retracts “Experimental and Computational Study of Zr and CNC-Doped MnO2 Nanorods for Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Activity” (DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c00583) due to a pattern of inappropriate image reuse, irregularities in the data and analysis presented, and concerns relating to the accountability for the research. This pattern of issues across several related articles calls intoquestion the reliability of all of the following publications, DOIs: 10.1021/acsomega.2c02790, 10.1021/acsomega.2c04650, 10.1021/acsomega.2c00583, 10.1021/acsomega.1c03723, 10.1021/acsomega.2c00240, and 10.1021/acsomega.2c05625. In this article, Figure 2D is duplicated from Figure 1C of 10.1021/acsomega.1c03723, and the indexing between the images assigns the same spots as different planes. Figure 4B is duplicated from Figure 4A of 10.1021/acsomega.1c03723. Figure 4A’, which shows interplanar separations measured from lattice-resolved high-resolution transmission electron microscopy images for CNC, is also duplicated from Figure 3G of 10.1039/D1NA00648G, which reports lattice-resolved images and interplanar separations of a different material (ZnO). The original article was published on April 14, 2022 and was retracted on November 24, 2025.