RETRACTED: N-Aminorhodanine modified chitosan hydrogel for antibacterial and copper ions removal from aqueous...

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Executive Editor. An investigation conducted by the journal found phrases that make some passages in the article difficult to parse because they deviate from standard technical terms. The authors were requested to explain the use of these passages of text but were unable to provide a satisfactory explanation. In addition, the investigation revealed that a substantial portion of the article was plagiarised from a previously published work: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, vol. 72, 2015, pp. 110-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2014.07.042 Consequently, the Editor has lost confidence in this article and have determined it should be retracted. The authors do not agree with the retraction. Apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.