Bioethanol is an essential energy source and is produced from agricultural feedstocks. However, raw bioethanol contains much water and methanol, and the traditional distillation approach has hardly removed it. Adsorptive separation of ethanol from water and methanol by adsorbents is an...

The shallow penetration depth of the sealant was often the main reason affecting its long-term protection. For the purpose of improving the penetration depth of the sealant and prolong its durability, an ultrasonic-assisted pre-sealing, annealing plus post-impregnating integration sealing method...

Design and engineering of efficient electrocatalysts towards hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) are essential in the development of renewable energy conversion and storage. Single atomic electrocatalysts (SACs), including Platinum (Pt) SACs, play a key role in catalysis owing to the ~100%...

Using first-principles calculations, we study the structural stability, Gilbert damping parameters, electronic structure, exchange interaction and Curie temperature of CrYCoZ (Z=Al, Ga, In, Tl) alloys. Stability is estimated from the perspective of thermodynamics, dynamics and mechanics. Gilbert...

We study how air pollution affects firm dynamics: entry, exit, innovation, and (aggregate) productivity. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find that air pollution significantly reduces entry and innovation and raises exit. Moreover, air pollution leaves firms with higher productivity...

We study how the extreme temperature affects firm dynamics in Chinese manufacturing sector, including entry, exit, and (aggregate) productivity. While existing literature mostly focus the effects of the extreme temperature on incumbent firms (intensive margin), we contribute the literature by...

This study is one of the first investigating the causal evidence of the morbidity costs of fine particulates (PM2.5) for all age cohorts in a developing country, using individual-level health spending data from a basic medical insurance program in Wuhan, China. Our instrumental variable (IV)...

We propose a dynamic semi-parametric framework to study time variation in tail parameters. The framework builds on the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) for modeling peaks over thresholds as in Extreme Value Theory, but casts the model in a conditional framework to allow for time-variation...

Fintech is the application of information technology in the financial sector. In the early days of China’s bond market, treasury bonds were decentralized among intermediaries in paper form, and market chaos occurred frequently. By using information technology, CCDC has enabled...