The Coatings Editorial Office retracts the article, “Mechanical Properties Study on Sandwich Composites of Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics (GFRP) Using Liquid Thermoplastic Resin, Elium®: Preliminary Experiments” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the publisher regarding the ownership of the data presented in this publication [1].
Adhering to our complaints procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and the Editorial Board that confirmed that the data contained in this article are subject to an intellectual property agreement, and the authors did not receive appropriate permission from the University of Nottingham (Ningbo, China) to publish. As such, the Editorial Office, Editorial Board and the authors have decided to retract this article [1], as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30 (accessed on 3 April 2024)) and in line with the Committee on Publication Ethics retraction guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines (accessed on 3 April 2024)).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of Coatings.
The authors did not agree with this retraction.
Reference
- Alshahrani, H.; Ahmed, A.; Kabrein, H.; Prakash, V.R.A. RETRACTED: Mechanical Properties Study on Sandwich Composites of Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics (GFRP) Using Liquid Thermoplastic Resin, Elium®: Preliminary Experiments. Coatings 2022, 12, 1423. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Scilit]
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