Green finance and high-pollution corporate compensation - Empirical evidence from green credit guidelines.

With the increasing focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on a global scale, stakeholders expect businesses to transform and enhance social responsibility. Over time, ESG and CSR have developed into vital performance metrics for businesses. Businesses are actively putting improvement measures into place in response to this new paradigm in order to stay competitive in this changing environment.

Incorporation of Epoxy Carbon onto CeO-Supported Pt to Tackle the CO Self-Poisoning Issue.

The catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) under ambient conditions plays a crucial role in the abatement of indoor CO, which poses risks to human health. Despite the notable activity exhibited by Pt-based catalysts in CO oxidation, their efficacy is usually diminished by the CO self-poisoning issue. In this work, three different Pt/CeO-based catalysts, which have distinct coordinative environments of Pt but an identical Pt/CeO substrate structure, were synthesized by activating the catalyst with CO using different temperatures and durations.

Enhancing oxidation reaction over Pt-MnO catalyst by activation of surface oxygen.

Formaldehyde (HCHO) and carbon monoxide (CO) are both common air pollutants and hazardous to human body. It is imperative to develop the catalyst that is able to efficiently remove these pollutants. In this work, we activated Pt-MnO under different conditions for highly active oxidation of HCHO and CO, and the catalyst activated under CO displayed superior performance.

Electronic Modification by Transitional Metal Dopants to Tune the Oxidation Activity of Pt-CeO-Based Catalysts.

While utilization of transitional metals as a promoter has been extensively studied to enhance the activity of Pt-based catalysts for the oxidation of formaldehyde (HCHO), there is still a lack of well elucidated property-function relationship for the rational selection of a promoter in catalyst design. Herein, we modified a Pt/CeO catalyst with two transitional metal dopants (i.e.

Correction: Tunable deep-blue luminescence from ball-milled chlorine-rich Cs(NH)PbClBr nanocrystals by ammonium modulation.

Correction for 'Tunable deep-blue luminescence from ball-milled chlorine-rich Cs(NH)PbClBr nanocrystals by ammonium modulation' by Hongfei Xiao , , 2022, , 3827-3830, DOI: 10.1039/D1CC07125D.

Tunable deep-blue luminescence from ball-milled chlorine-rich Cs(NH)PbClBr nanocrystals by ammonium modulation.

For the first time, a novel class of deep-blue (DB)-emitting Cs(NH)PbClBr (0.3 ≤ ≤ 1) perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) were prepared by a facile ligand-assisted one-step ball milling method. The resulted PNCs are characterized by high chlorine content (66.

An improved PD-AsLS method for baseline estimation in EDXRF analysis.

Baseline correction is an important step in energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis. The asymmetric least squares method (AsLS), adaptive iteratively reweighted penalized least squares method (airPLS), and asymmetrically reweighted penalized least squares method (arPLS) are widely used to automatically select the data points for the baseline. Considering the parametric sensitivity of the aforementioned methods and the statistical characteristics of the X-ray energy spectrum, this paper proposes an asymmetrically reweighted penalized least squares method based on the Poisson distribution (PD-AsLS) to automatically correct the baseline of X-ray spectra.

Layer-Wise Floorplan Extraction for Automatic Urban Building Reconstruction.

Urban building reconstruction is an important step for urban digitization and realisticvisualization. In this paper, we propose a novel automatic method to recover urban building geometry from 3D point clouds. The proposed method is suitable for buildings composed of planar polygons and aligned with the gravity direction, which are quite common in the city.