RETRACTED: Transdermal delivery of flurbiprofen from polyoxypropylene-polyoxyethylene block copolymer stabilized reduced graphene oxide to manage pain in spondylitis: In vitro and in vivo studies

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This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Significant similarities were noticed post-publication between this article and the article that was previously published by an apparently unrelated group of authors: Weifan Li, Guangqi Zhang and Xiaoxia Wei, Journal of Biomaterials Applications 35 (2021) 1034 https://doi.org/10.1177/0885328220988462. Moreover, the authors did not respond to the journal request to comment on these similarities and to provide the raw data, and the Editor-in-Chief decided to retract the article. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that the paper has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. As such this article represents an abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community 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.