The correction of thermodynamic data published in Journal of Hazardous Materials 461 (2024) 132464

The dissemination of scientific knowledge depends on the ability of the authors, reviewers and publishers to provide available information and data to readers and mistakes, if not discovered, it will affect the academic quality of the paper. Recently, Liu et al. published an important academic paper that investigated the adsorption behavior of thiram by four common types of microplastics (MPs) and its hazardous change after that adsorption. However, the thermodynamic parameters of ΔG, ΔH, and ΔS need to be corrected because their data in Table 4 did not support their thermodynamic conclusions. In the present study, the value of ΔG was confirmed based on the thermodynamic calculation principle and the description of the thermodynamic results by Liu et al., then the values of ΔH, and ΔS were recalculated using the confirmed ΔG values. After the above corrections, the contradiction between the data and the conclusion has been resolved. In addition, the present study provided a method for calculating ΔG° using the standard equilibrium constant K°, thereby eliminating the errors caused by non-standard equilibrium constant. There is a growing need to enhance scientific rigor across many fields of scientific research. Rigorous scientific papers need to demonstrate creative experimental designs, but also provide precise results. Here, we just do that.