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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”
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The source
Nanoscale organic transistors based on self-assembled monolayers
Jan Hendrik Schon, Zhenan Bao
Applied Physics Letters · published January 2002 · cited 5 times by other papers
Retracted Feb 1, 2003
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- Schön scandal5,277 views a month · open since Nov 5Zombie
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