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Advertisement Advertisement Nature * View all journals * Search * My Account Login * Explore content * About the journal * Publish with us * Sign up for alerts * RSS feed 1. nature 2. retractions 3. article Retraction Note: Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride Download PDF Download PDF * Retraction Note * Published: 26 September 2022 Retraction Note: Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride * Elliot Snider^1^ na1, * Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0298-8513^2^ na1, * Raymond McBride^1^ na1, * Mathew Debessai^3, * Hiranya Vindana^2, * Kevin Vencatasamy^2, * Keith V. Lawler ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1087-5815^4, * Ashkan Salamat^5 & * ... * Ranga P. Dias ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-4928^1,2 Show authors Nature (2022)Cite this article * 4444 Accesses * 55 Altmetric * Metrics details Subjects * Superconducting properties and materials * Superconductors The Original Article was published on 14 October 2020 Retraction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2801-z Published online 14 October 2020 The editors of Nature wish to retract this paper. Following publication, questions were raised regarding the manner in which the data in this paper have been processed and analysed, which the authors and Nature have been working to resolve. We have now established that some key data processing steps--namely, the background subtractions applied to the raw data used to generate the magnetic susceptibility plots in Fig. 2a and Extended Data Fig. 7d--used a non-standard, user-defined procedure. The details of the procedure were not specified in the paper and the validity of the background subtraction has subsequently been called into question. The authors maintain that the raw data provide strong support for the main claims of the original paper. Nevertheless, we are of the opinion that these processing issues undermine confidence in the published magnetic susceptibility data as a whole, and we are accordingly retracting the paper. All the authors who explicitly stated their opinion on the retraction do not agree with it. Author information Author notes 1. These authors contributed equally: Elliot Snider, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Raymond McBride. Authors and Affiliations 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA Elliot Snider, Raymond McBride & Ranga P. Dias 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Hiranya Vindana, Kevin Vencatasamy & Ranga P. Dias 3. Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, USA Mathew Debessai 4. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA Keith V. Lawler 5. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA Ashkan Salamat Authors 1. Elliot Snider View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar 2. Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar 3. Raymond McBride View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar 4. Mathew Debessai View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar 5. Hiranya Vindana View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar 6. 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