Subsequent to publication of the above article,1 it was discovered that the data involving the Co 2p XPS spectra shown in Figure 5 appeared to have been manipulated, and as a consequence, the results presented should not be relied upon and may be scientifically unsound.

AIP Publishing LLC therefore retracts this article.

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R. K.
Singhal
,
A.
Samariya
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S.
Kumar
,
Y. T.
Xing
,
D. C.
Jain
,
S. N.
Dolia
,
U. P.
Deshpande
,
T.
Shripathi
, and
E. B.
Saitovitch
,
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107
,
113916
(
2010
).