Editorial Expression of Concern to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99616-y, published online 12 October 2021
The Editors are issuing an Editorial Expression of Concern to alert readers that this article shows substantial indication of irregularities in authorship during the submission process. Readers should also note that the source of the coefficients used in Table 1 was omitted and is Rappé et al. 19921.
Davood Toghraie agrees with this statement. Liang Zhao, Mahyuddin K. M. Nasution, Maboud Hekmatifar, Roozbeh Sabetvand, Pavel Kamenskov, As’ad Alizadeh & Teimour Ghahari Iran have not responded to correspondence about this statement.
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Rappé, A. K., Casewit, C. J., Colwell, K., Goddard, W. A. III. & Skiff, W. M. UFF, a full periodic table force field for molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 114(25), 10024–10035 (1992).
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Zhao, L., Nasution, M.K.M., Hekmatifar, M. et al. Editorial Expression of Concern: The improvement of mechanical properties of conventional concretes using carbon nanoparticles using molecular dynamics simulation. Sci Rep 12, 11351 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15653-1
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