RETRACTION: Progress of zinc oxide-based nanocomposites in the textile industry

RETRACTION: R. Huang, S. Zhang, W. Zhang, X. Yang, “Progress of Zinc Oxide-Based Nanocomposites in the Textile Industry,” IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing 3, no. 3 (2021): 281–289. https://doi.org/10.1049/cim2.12029.

The above article, published online on 24 May 2021 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) has been retracted by agreement between the journal's Editors-in-Chief; Liang Gao and Weiming Shen; the Institution of Engineering and Technology; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

The retraction has been agreed on after concerns about this manuscript were raised by a third party. An investigation revealed several inconsistencies regarding the experiments described and the results presented. Furthermore, multiple references are unrelated to this manuscript and are considered insufficient to support the corresponding statements in the text. The experimental methods are not described in detail, and so the research is not comprehensible for the readers, the experiments are not reproducible, and the conclusions are considered invalid. The authors have been informed of the decision to retract.