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SUMMARY:I retracted a paper and I feel fine
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>ICMAB Seminar</strong></p>\n<p>By <strong>Riccardo R
 urali</strong>\, ICMAB-CSIC\, Spain</p>\n<p>IN-PERSON EVENT and ONLINE</p>
 \n<p><strong>Abstract</strong>:</p>\n<p>Some time after the publication of
  my paper on the “Giant Thermal Switching via Phase Transition in MoTe<s
 ub>2</sub>” (J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2026) 17 (4): 1262)\, a group at IIT 
 Bombay contacted me pointing out a lack of reproducibility of some of our 
 results. Since then\, we started working together to find out the reasons 
 of the discrepancy and after several weeks of intense testing and double-c
 hecks\, we concluded that our results\, used in the original publication\,
  were flawed. No misconduct or wrong-doing by anybody\, but still flawed\,
  leading to the unavoidable decision of retracting the paper.</p>\n<p>If y
 ou want to hear an inspiring story (the guys at IIT Bombay worked selfless
 ly just to help us finding what the problem was and we didn't back out whe
 n it came to challenge our own results)\, I’ll tell how it all went down
 . And also\, what did we learn about the retraction process and how is sci
 ence doing (and how are we doing).</p>\n<p><strong>Shot bio:</strong></p>\
 n<div class="uk-margin uk-margin-remove-bottom uk-container uk-container-l
 arge">\n<div class="uk-grid tm-grid-expand uk-child-width-1-1">\n<div clas
 s="uk-width-1-1@m">\n<div class="uk-panel uk-margin uk-margin-remove-top u
 k-width-2xlarge uk-margin-auto">\n<p>I am a staff scientist and director o
 f the Materials &amp\; Simulation Department at the Institut de Ciència d
 e Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB)\, a research institute of the Spanish nat
 ional council of research (CSIC)\, where I also served as Deputy Director 
 from 2015 to 2023. I graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Politecnic
 o di Milano (Italy) in 1996 and obtained my PhD in Materials Science at th
 e Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2003 with a PhD Thesis on the theo
 retical modeling of defects in SiC. I continued my research career with a 
 2-year postdoctoral stay at the Université Paul Sabatier\, in Toulouse (F
 rance). I returned to Spain to join the Computational Nanoelectronics grou
 p at the Universitat Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona first with a Juan 
 de la Cierva contract\, then with a Ramón y Cajal contract\, both granted
  by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.&nbsp\; In the latest 
 years I focused my research activity on nanoscale thermal transport and pa
 rticularly on the dynamical tuning of the thermal conductivity of material
 s.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class="uk-grid-margin uk-cont
 ainer">Register <a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SREmRqrWSmS_5
 JZHEL7tnw#/registration">HERE</a></div>\n<div class="uk-grid-margin uk-con
 tainer">&nbsp\;</div>\n<div class="uk-grid-margin uk-container"><a href="h
 ttps://icmab.es/i-retracted-a-paper-and-i-feel-fine-by-riccardo-rurali">MO
 RE INFORMATION&nbsp\;</a></div>\n<div class="uk-grid-margin uk-container">
 &nbsp\;</div>
DTSTART:20261130T110000
DTEND:20261130T225959
LOCATION:ICMAB-Sala d'Actes Carles Miravitlles and Online
CATEGORIES:Barcelona Nanocluster
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