Retraction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15192, published online 08 May 2017
The authors have retracted this article because of data processing errors that impacted data presentation and interpretation of the Raman spectra plotted in Fig. 1c, Fig. 2b, and Fig. S2, which invalidate the conclusions of the article.
The authors state that the data processing was performed with a routine implemented in the OriginPro® software. The evolution of the Raman spectra upon exposure to an electrophilic trapping reagent (H20 vapour, H2, O2) was displayed as cumulative plots, whereby individual spectra are added up consecutively and displayed in a ‘waterfall’ presentation. Upon re-examination of the data, the authors found that the Cz mode, characteristic of graphitic intercalation, vanishes with the continuous exposure of the electrophilic trapping reagent, whereas in the original Fig. 1c, Fig. S2 it is widely retained, and in some series it becomes more intense. The apparent persistence of the Cz mode is a direct consequence of the erroneous data processing. Any conclusions on the structure of the intercalated graphite during gas exposure that were drawn from the analysis of the Cz mode are invalid. Especially, pathway i) in Fig.2a of the paper is not supported by the measured data. Furthermore, the authors found that the spectra displayed in Fig. 1d, Fig. 2b (grey line) and Fig. 4b are identical, although they are described as different data sets, invalidating the analysis of the D bands.
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Vecera, P., Chacón-Torres, J.C., Pichler, T. et al. Retraction Note: Precise determination of graphene functionalization by in situ Raman spectroscopy. Nat Commun 13, 6637 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34281-x
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