RETRACTED: Thermodynamic study of grain growth in nanocrystalline metals and its simulation by molecular dynamics

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.It has come to our attention that there is very substantial duplication of text and content between this Computational Materials Science article and an earlier paper by the same authors, “The effect of grain size on the nanocrystalline growth in metals and its simulation by Monte Carlo method” S.A. Sabeti, M. Pahlevaninezhad, M. Panjepour, Comput. Mater. Sci. 50 (7) (2011) 2104–2111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2011.02.016.One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. 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.