Retraction notice to “Influence of electropulsing treatment on microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V alloy strip with lamellar microstructure” [Mater. Sci. Eng. A 622C (2015) 1−6]

Retraction notice to “Influence of electropulsing treatment on microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V alloy strip with lamellar microstructure” [Mater. Sci. Eng. A 622C (2015) 1−6]

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Retraction notice to “Influence of electropulsing treatment on microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V alloy strip with lamellar microstructure” [Mater. Sci. Eng. A 622C (2015) 1−6]

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Xiaoxin Yea,b, Zion T.H. Tsec, Guoyi Tanga,b, Yubo Genga,b, Guolin Songa a

Advanced Materials Institute, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, PR China Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China c College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA b

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Figure 6 duplicates figure 4 of the article that had already appeared in Adv. Eng. Mater. 17 (2015) 995–1007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ adem.201400273 and figure 8 of the article that had appeared in J. Mater. Res. 29 (2014) 1500–1512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr. 2014.171. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents an abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community

DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2014.11.003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2017.01.040 Received 13 July 2014Received in revised form 30 October 2014Accepted 3 November 2014 Available online 19 January 2017 0921-5093/

takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process. Journal records indicate that confirmation of the submission and publication of the article was sent to the first author's email address, in addition to an email that used the corresponding author's name ([email protected]). The corresponding author and the first author wish to mention that the co-author Zion T.H. Tse was not involved in the preparation and handling of this article. He was not informed about the publication or granted the use of his name and affiliation in the publication.