Images “may not be trustworthy”: Aluminum sheets paper folds into retraction

Following questions “about the integrity of the microscopy images,” Materials Science and Engineering: A has retracted a paper on the properties of sheets of aluminum under strain. The images in question show sheets after a few rounds of a process called “constrained groove pressing,” which smushes sheets between two grooved plates, and then between two flat plates, to … Continue reading Images “may not be trustworthy”: Aluminum sheets paper folds into retraction