The global consensus to pivot to a more sustainable lifestyle and achieve greater atom economy calls for not only sourcing advanced functional materials from biomass but also accomplishing high feedstock utilization with green and low-toxic reagents; yet, the multi-constituent nature of biomass...

The school quality often impacts housing prices in the urban districts. Shanghai's municipal government launched the school district household (SDH) policy in 2014 to curb the sharp rise in housing prices caused by high-quality schools. Based on the idea of natural experiment and...

Using consumer complaints filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a measure for the quality of financial products and services, we document significant and robust differential impacts of COVID-19 on high vs. low minority communities. Relative to the pre-COVID period, the racial...

Calcium-Looping (CaL) is considered as a promising process for thermochemical energy storage system. A key challenge is the possibility of multi-cycle stability of calcium based material for a long-term use. Here, we present an MgO supported molten salt strategy for calcium based material. The...