Retraction: Silicone oil impregnated nano silica modified glass surface and influence of environmental dust particles on optical transmittance

Retraction of ‘Silicone oil impregnated nano silica modified glass surface and influence of environmental dust particles on optical transmittance’ by Bekir Sami Yilbas et al., RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 29762–29771, https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RA03392C. The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to concerns with the reliability of the data. Several concerns with the data have been identifed within a group of articles by the same author group. The authors have not been able to satisfactorily address these concerns. Given the signifcance of these concerns, the Editor has lost confdence that the findings presented in this paper are reliable. The authors were informed about the retraction of the article. Bekir Sami Yilbas has not agreed with the decision, the other authors have not responded. Bekir Sami Yilbas states that authors disagree with the retraction and state that all figures were generated by the authors, and the reuse of one or two surface-characterization images neither constitutes duplicated data being presented as new nor compromises the validity of the fndings, since the scientifc discussion in each paper is supported by multiple fgures.