Retraction notice to “Research on the kinetics characteristics and in-cylinder combustion of opposed rotary piston engine for different power output modes” [Appl. Therm. Eng. 249 (2024) 123362] (Applied Thermal Engineering (2024) 249, (S1359431124010305), (10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.123362))

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Authorship changes were made during the revision of this paper without validation or authorisation by the editor of the journal as stated in the journal policy. Yuwei Zhao, Jilong Song, Zhonghui Fu, and Junfeng Huang were authors on the original submission and were removed during the revision process. Andy Thawko, Ayat Gharehghani, and Bingjian Wang were added as authors during the revision process. This breached the journal's policies on authorship. The authors were contacted to clarify these changes and their contributions to the paper but did not provide sufficient evidence to support their authorship. The author Andy Thawko has provided the journal with evidence that he had explicitly informed the corresponding author that he did not wish to be included as an author on the paper and that he did not contribute to the work. Apologies are offered to Andy Thawko for this breach of the journal's policies on authorship.