[WiPo]

It must be one of his Chinese graduate students who went back to work as a faculty in Wuhan and made him that offer. Not surprised at all and actually this kind of bribery has been practiced at lot among Chinese American faculties. But IMO it’s not a severe national security issue though as most Nanotechnology paper are just BS and being published purely for the sake of fundings from NSF. So it’s really unwise to lie on that matter.