“Part of a paper that had already appeared”: Materials paper pulled for plagiarism
Microporous and Mesoporous Materials has retracted a 2015 paper after it was discovered the authors “have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared.” The paper, “Ionic liquid assisted synthesis of flexible and super-hydrophobic porous gels,” described the synthesis of a form of flexible aerogels “through a facile one-pot preparation,” according to the abstract. According … Continue reading “Part of a paper that had already appeared”: Materials paper pulled for plagiarism