Major chemical database investigates hundreds of suspicious crystal structures - Nature.com

An unprecedented number of crystallography database entries are undergoing extra checks amid fears that they are based on fabricated data.

The CCDC says that 992 entries in its crystallography database are under investigation.Credit: Patrick McCabe/Alamy The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), a go-to resource for chemists s… [+6408 chars]

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