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Retraction

Retraction: Sun L. et al. Porosity Defect Remodeling and Tensile Analysis of Cast Steel. Materials 2016, 9, 119, doi:10.3390/ma9020119

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Materials 2016, 9(6), 488; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9060488
Submission received: 17 June 2016 / Revised: 17 June 2016 / Accepted: 17 June 2016 / Published: 18 June 2016
We have been made aware that the figures and experimental data of this article [1] are duplicated from another publication by Hardin et al. [2]. In addition, the first author Linfeng Sun submitted and published the manuscript without the knowledge of the other authors by fabricating contact email addresses.
MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics and takes the responsibility to enforce strict ethical policies and standards very seriously. To ensure the addition of only high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication, [1] is retracted and shall be marked accordingly. The article is retracted with the agreement of all authors. We apologize to the readership of Materials for any inconvenience caused.

References

  1. Sun, L.; Liao, R.; Lu, W.; Fu, S. Porosity Defect Remodeling and Tensile Analysis of Cast Steel. Materials 2016, 9, 119. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  2. Hardin, R.A.; Beckermann, C. Effect of Porosity on Deformation, Damage and Fracture of Cast Steel. Metall. Mater. Trans. A 2013, 44, 5316–5332. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]

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Materials Editorial Office. Retraction: Sun L. et al. Porosity Defect Remodeling and Tensile Analysis of Cast Steel. Materials 2016, 9, 119, doi:10.3390/ma9020119. Materials 2016, 9, 488. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9060488

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Materials Editorial Office. Retraction: Sun L. et al. Porosity Defect Remodeling and Tensile Analysis of Cast Steel. Materials 2016, 9, 119, doi:10.3390/ma9020119. Materials. 2016; 9(6):488. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9060488

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Materials Editorial Office. 2016. "Retraction: Sun L. et al. Porosity Defect Remodeling and Tensile Analysis of Cast Steel. Materials 2016, 9, 119, doi:10.3390/ma9020119" Materials 9, no. 6: 488. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9060488

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