381 research outputs found
Expansion of financial system and productionbased carbon emissions: evidence from highincome countries
The recent environmental and energy economics is more influential
towards sustainability of the environment. Unlike the existing
literature covering extensively consumption-based carbon emissions
factors, this research tends to identify the factors influencing
production-based carbon emissions in the G7 economies from
1989 to 2020. The study utilised various panel econometric
approaches to find the presence of cross-section dependence, stationarity
of variables, and the validation of long-run cointegration
association between the variables. This study uses a non-parametric
long-run estimator (method of moment quantile regression) to
explore the association between these variables at four (Q0.25,
Q0.50, Q0.75, Q0.90) quantiles. The estimated results revealed that
economic growth is a significant positive factor of productionbased
carbon emissions, whereas the influence of imports is positive
but insignificant across the quantiles. On the other hand, this
study found the negative and significant influence of exports and
financial expansion on the production-based carbon emissions
and helps to achieve environmental sustainability in the region.
The non-parametric (bootstrap quantile regression) and parametric
(robust regression) robustness tests also validate the earlier
estimator’s empirical findings. Based on the results obtained, this
study recommends increased investment in environmentally
friendly energy resources, technologies, and energy efficiency,
increased exports, and strengthening financial institution
Development of a Transferable Reactive Force Field of P/H Systems: Application to the Chemical and Mechanical Properties of Phosphorene
ReaxFF provides a method to model reactive chemical systems in large-scale
molecular dynamics simulations. Here, we developed ReaxFF parameters for
phosphorus and hydrogen to give a good description of the chemical and
mechanical properties of pristine and defected black phosphorene. ReaxFF for
P/H is transferable to a wide range of phosphorus and hydrogen containing
systems including bulk black phosphorus, blue phosphorene, edge-hydrogenated
phosphorene, phosphorus clusters and phosphorus hydride molecules. The
potential parameters were obtained by conducting unbiased global optimization
with respect to a set of reference data generated by extensive ab initio
calculations. We extend ReaxFF by adding a 60{\deg} correction term which
significantly improves the description of phosphorus clusters. Emphasis has
been put on obtaining a good description of mechanical response of black
phosphorene with different types of defects. Compared to nonreactive SW
potential [1], ReaxFF for P/H systems provides a huge improvement in describing
the mechanical properties the pristine and defected black phosphorene and the
thermal stability of phosphorene nanotubes. A counterintuitive phenomenon is
observed that single vacancies weaken the black phosphorene more than double
vacancies with higher formation energy. Our results also show that mechanical
response of black phosphorene is more sensitive to defects for the zigzag
direction than for the armchair direction. Since ReaxFF allows straightforward
extensions to the heterogeneous systems, such as oxides, nitrides, ReaxFF
parameters for P/H systems build a solid foundation for the reactive force
field description of heterogeneous P systems, including P-containing 2D van der
Waals heterostructures, oxides, etc
Spectroscopic study of light scattering in linear alkylbenzene for liquid scintillator neutrino detectors
We has set up a light scattering spectrometer to study the depolarization of
light scattering in linear alkylbenzene. From the scattering spectra it can be
unambiguously shown that the depolarized part of light scattering belongs to
Rayleigh scattering. The additional depolarized Rayleigh scattering can make
the effective transparency of linear alkylbenzene much better than it was
expected. Therefore sufficient scintillation photons can transmit through the
large liquid scintillator detector of JUNO. Our study is crucial to achieving
the unprecedented energy resolution 3\%/ for JUNO
experiment to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. The spectroscopic method
can also be used to judge the attribution of the depolarization of other
organic solvents used in neutrino experiments.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
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