"The ban on sales of ZTE, imposed by the US, made China feel the weight of a small chip. The ban is termed as a trade war. What is the truth behind this trade friction? Why did the Chinese microchip industry encounter such a predicament? What is the future of the microchip industry in China?...

Estuaries and coastal seas play an important role in mitigating global warming due to their substantial storage of organic matters (OM) in sediments; and it is crucial to clarify the impact of relative sea level (RSL) changes on the efficiency and capacity of OM burial in coastal sediments in...

The insulating chains of the ammonium cations in two-dimensional (2D) perovskite solar cells (PeSCs) inevitably impede charge transport, thereby limiting the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). In this study, we develop a vapor venting space-limited crystallization method for growing...

The asset growth anomaly, an inverse relationship between security performance and asset growth rates, prevails not only in the equity market but also in the corporate bond market. This can be either interpreted as a risk and return tradeoff where bonds of higher asset growth firms are better...