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Cool Kitchen: Processing Starch and Eggshell Powder into Sustainable Coatings for Passive Daytime Cooling

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A food‐grade cooling composite made from starch and recycled eggshell powder offers a scalable, ultra‐low‐cost solution for passive daytime radiative cooling. Easily prepared using basic kitchen tools, this material empowers communities, even in areas with limited infrastructure, to stay cooler during worsening summer heat waves.
Qimeng Song, Evelyn Kubacki, Alexander Berger, Markus Retsch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Literacy as a Mediator Between Digital Finance Adoption and Financial Inclusion Among SMEs in Oyo State, Nigeria

Southeast Asian Business Review
The study investigates the mediating role of digital literacy in the relationship between digital finance and financial inclusion among SMEs in Oyo State, Nigeria.
Ademola Samuel Sajuyigbe, Nwoye James Obi, John Tawiah Oladapo, Emmanuel Aderinola Adegun, Adewumi Ramat Adedoyin, Abimbola Tolulope Dunsin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Roll‐to‐Roll Mechanical Exfoliation for Large‐Area van der Waals Films with Preserved Crystallographic Alignment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A roll‐to‐roll exfoliation method is demonstrated that preserves the crystallographic alignment of anisotropic 2D materials over large areas, enabling scalable fabrication of directional electronic and optoelectronic devices. Abstract Anisotropic 2D materials such as black phosphorus (BP), GeS or CrSBr, exhibit direction‐dependent optical and ...
Esteban Zamora‐Amo, Francisco Fernandez‐Canizares, Yigit Sozen, Thomas Pucher, Pedro L Alcázar Ruano, Carmen Munuera, Ryo Ishikawa, Naoya Shibata, María Varela, Der‐Yuh Lin, Bing Wu, Jorge Quereda, Zdenek Sofer, Gabriel Sánchez‐Santolino, Andres Castellanos‐Gomez   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the linkages between digital finance and real economy in China: A cointegration analysis

Innovation and Green Development
This study uses panel data from 31 Chinese provinces covering the years 2011–2020 to investigate the long-term equilibrium between digital finance and the real economy.
Yutong Liu, Mingbo Zheng, Wai Yan Shum
doaj   +1 more source

Fully Bio‐Based Gelatin Organohydrogels via Enzymatic Crosslinking for Sustainable Soft Strain and Temperature Sensing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Enzymatically crosslinked gelatin‐based organohydrogels, fabricated through a fully bio‐based and scalable process, exhibit exceptional strain and temperature sensing capabilities with minimal interference from environmental humidity. These transparent, stretchable, and ionically conductive materials operate without synthetic fillers or dopants.
Pietro Tordi, Adrián Tamayo, Yeonsu Jeong, Bin Han, Tamer Al Kayal, Aida Cavallo, Massimo Bonini, Paolo Samorì   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Photoconductivity‐Driven Quantum Efficiency Gain in Inorganic Ruddlesden‐Popper Layered Cs2PbBr2I2 Perovskite Photodetector for Visible Light Detection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Rational halogen mixing strategy was employed to shift the bandgap of Cs2PbBr2I2 from ultraviolet to visible region, enabling first realization of a visible‐light photodetector with this 2D layered Ruddlesden‐Popper perovskite material. Under illumination, light‐induced internal field forms and drives trap‐mediated persistent photoconductivity ...
Md Fahim Al Fattah, Asif Abdullah Khan, Saikiran Khamgaonkar, Majid Haji Bagheri, Danyah Khan, Md Rasidul Islam, Mahmoud Almadoun, Aixi Pan, Alexander Li, Marwa Abd‐Ellah, Vivek Maheshwari, Dayan Ban   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact Investing and Inclusive Business Development in Africa: A research agenda [PDF]

, 2015
Impact investing aims to create sustainable social and environmental impacts for investee enterprises and communities as well as adequate financial returns.
Korda, Alex, Ngoasong, Michael, Paton, Rob   +2 more
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Heteroatom‐Engineering Promoted Co9S8 Bi‐functional Electrocatalyst for Hydrazine‐Assisted Hydrogen Production at Industrial Current Density

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Fe and P co‐doped Co9S8 nanocorals (Fe, P‐Co9S8) are successfully synthesized by a heteroatom engineering strategy, which exhibit outstanding bifunctional electrocatalytic performance for both the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and hydrazine oxidation reaction (HzOR).
Yuying Meng, Chunyan Xiang, Wenbiao Zhang, Dahai Zeng, Bing Du, Bao Zhong, Yue Jiang, Damien Voiry, Qingsheng Gao   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Digital Finance on Industrial Structure: Evidence From China

SAGE Open
This paper first theoretically analyzes the impact mechanism of digital finance on industrial structure upgrading, and then empirically analyzes the relationship between digital finance and industrial structure upgrading.
Qiutong Xue, Sixian Feng, Muchen Li
doaj   +1 more source

Regional digital finance and inefficient corporate investments: Empirical evidence from China

Cogent Economics & Finance
Using data of 1,457 Chinese A-share listed enterprises from 2012 to 2021, this study investigates the impact of regional digital finance development on inefficient corporate investments.
Asad Nisar, Haolin Li, Syed Sadaqat Ali Shah, Rabia Rafique   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source