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In recent years, the negative consequences of climate change have gradually spread to the real economy sector, which affects enterprise output, increases enterprise costs, and thus inhibits the sustainable development of enterprises. Still, it is not clear whether corporate resource misallocation will reinforce the effect. Therefore, using the data of A-share listed companies in 2011–2021, this paper investigates the impact of climate change on corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. According to empirical results, climate change significantly inhibits corporate ESG performance. It also found that continuously eliminating internal and external resource misallocation helps alleviate the adverse effects of climate change on ESG performance. Furthermore, compared with enterprises in non-resource-based cities, climate change will significantly improve corporate ESG performance in resource-based cities, indicating that the adaptive behavior caused by climate change has partially broken the resource curse phenomenon. Additionally, mature and large-scale enterprises mitigate the negative effects better, and external pressure from the public environmental and analysts' attention can motivate companies to improve their ESG performance. The research enriches the research on the impact of climate change on corporate ESG performance and provides a reference basis for enterprises to cope with climate risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Exploring dynamic response-based damage identification under wave excitation is important for establishing a health monitoring system. In our previous study, we analyzed the characteristics of the rigid-body dynamic response and successfully employed them to identify the damage location of a pile foundation. Nevertheless, some recent researches show that the local flexural response resulting from wave impact has stronger energy performance. Therefore, this paper constructed a new damage identification method by making full use of energy and phase slope of the local flexural response. Firstly, a novel frequency domain clustering algorithm based on the Sub-peaks Suppression of Power Spectral Density Method (SSPSDM) was proposed to address the challenge of mode mixing in signal decomposition. Subsequently, the new composite energy factors were developed by combining both energy and phase of the local flexural response to enhance the sensitivity and robustness of damage identification. Finally, the method was validated using the acceleration signals from a laboratorial high-piled wharf model. The results show that the method can effectively extract the damage feature sub-signal and the composite energy factor based on phase slope enables better identification of the damage location and degree, enhancing the accuracy of the damage assessment process. • A frequency domain clustering method was proposed to extract different responses. • The Sub-peaks Suppression of Power Spectral Density Method was proposed. • The composite energy factors with better identification effect were proposed. • The effects of decomposition algorithms for damage identification were compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graphite-based metal transition-layer substrates hold great potential for preparing large-area diamond films and achieving crack-free release. In this study, a five-inch crack-free free-standing diamond film was prepared on a graphite substrate with a sacrificial Mo/Ti double-layer transition layer using direct-current arc plasma jet chemical vapor deposition (DC jet CVD). The interfacial bonding and diffusion behavior between the diamond and the transition layers were investigated. The effect of abundant metal particles and elemental diffusion between layers on film adhesion and stress release are discussed and analyzed. The surface of Ti layer prepared by the multi-arc ion-plating contains numerous metal particles that provide a template for the fine-crystalline Mo layer. Metal particles are encapsulated and embedded in the diamond and act as anchors that ensure the stability of the substrate–diamond bond during high-temperature deposition. After deposition, those metal particles act as weak points and play crucial stress-release roles. Mutual elemental diffusion occurs between the Ti, Mo, and diamond layers. Ti penetrates the Mo layer to form a continuous 140-nm-thick thin layer during the initial deposition period, facilitating diamond nucleation. Carbon from the plasma and diamond diffuses into the metal transition layer. Thermal stress generated between the diamond and the graphite substrate is released by destroying the metal transition layer with high thermal expansion coefficient and low elastic modulus during cooling from the deposition temperature. Cracks rapidly propagate along the interface between destroyable transition layers and graphite substrate, which results in the liftoff of a fully crack-free diamond film. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]