A materials journal has retracted two 2013 papers, citing an investigation at Pennsylvania State University that concluded the first author falsified data.
According to the retraction notice in Advanced Materials, Mehdi Ghaffari — formerly based at Penn State — was solely responsible for the misconduct. Ghaffari’s LinkedIn page says he finished his PhD at Penn State in 2014, and now works as an independent consultant in New York, after a stint as a postdoc at Procter and Gamble.
A Penn State spokesperson sent us this statement: Continue reading Materials researcher falsified data in two studies, probe reveals