RETRACTED: Qadir et al. Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Particles Using Malic Acid-Derived Polyamides, Polyhydrazides, and Hydrazides. Molecules 2025, 30, 134

The journal retracts the article titled “Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Particles Using Malic Acid-Derived Polyamides, Polyhydrazides, and Hydrazides” [1], cited above.

Following publication, concerns regarding the authorship and image irregularities in this published article [1] were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office.

In accordance with standard journal procedures, the Editorial Office and Editorial Board conducted an investigation that confirmed indications of inappropriate image editing in Figures 1b, 2e and 3b,c. Although the authors cooperated with the investigation, they could not provide supporting materials for the Editorial Board to evaluate and validate the study’s origin. As a result, the Editorial Board has lost confidence in the reliability of the findings and results and has decided to retract this paper as per MDPI’s retraction policy.

This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Molecules.

The corresponding author requested the retraction of the article and agrees with the decision of the Editorial Board. He would like to express his apologies to the editors and readers. The author states that the hard drive storing the study’s original experimental data suffered an unrecoverable hardware failure. The remaining authors did not provide any comment.