RETRACTED: In vitro corrosion resistance and in vivo osseointegration testing of new multifunctional beta-type quaternary TiMoZrTa alloys

Lucia Carmen Trincă; Daniel Mareci; Carmen Solcan; Mircea Fantanariu; Liviu Burtan; Vasile Vulpe; Luminiţa-Diana Hriţcu; Ricardo Manuel Souto

doi:10.1016/j.msec.2019.110485

RETRACTED: In vitro corrosion resistance and in vivo osseointegration testing of new multifunctional beta-type quaternary TiMoZrTa alloys

Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl. 2020 Mar:108:110485. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2019.110485. Epub 2019 Nov 22.

Authors

Lucia Carmen Trincă¹, Daniel Mareci², Carmen Solcan³, Mircea Fantanariu⁴, Liviu Burtan⁵, Vasile Vulpe⁴, Luminiţa-Diana Hriţcu⁴, Ricardo Manuel Souto⁶

Affiliations

¹ "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Exact Sciences Department, 700490, Iasi, Romania. Electronic address: lctrinca@uaiasi.ro.
² "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Department of Chemical Engineering, 700050, Iasi, Romania.
³ "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Preclinics Department, 700489, Iasi, Romania.
⁴ "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Clinics Department, 700489, Iasi, Romania.
⁵ "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Clinics Department, 700489, Iasi, Romania. Electronic address: blmv2018@yahoo.com.
⁶ Department of Chemistry, Universidad de La Laguna, Avda. Astrofisico Sanchez s/n, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain; Instituto Universitario de Materiales y Nanotecnologias, Universidad de La Laguna, P.O. Box 456, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain. Electronic address: rsouto@ull.es.

PMID: 31924054
DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2019.110485

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of authors. Due to communication issues between Professor dr. Lucia Carmen Trincă and Professor dr. Vizureanu Petrica and Assist. dr. Bălţatu Simona, the first author was not aware that the specimens processed by corrosion by Assoc. Professor dr. Daniel Mareci and evaluated in the aforementioned article would be included by Assistant dr. Bălţatu Simona in her PhD thesis that was defended in June 2017 and then in an international patent application (Indonesia) No: PI 2019006569, in November 2019. The authors understand and respect the intellectual property rights of the international (Indonesia) patent application holders no: PI 2019006569/2019 and thus request the retraction of the article.

Keywords: Bone implants; Multifunctional beta-type TiMoZrTa alloys; Osseointegration; in vitro corrosion resistance; in vivo animal testing.