High-entropy design is widely used to tailor structural disorder and local polarization in ferroelectric ceramics, but whether it necessarily enhances relaxor characteristics in tetragonal tungsten bronze (TTB) systems remains unclear. Here, entropy-tunable K(NaPr)_1-x(SrBa)_xNb₅O₁₅ ceramics were constructed to decouple the factors governing diffuse phase transition and relaxor-ferroelectric evolution. Contrary to conventional expectations, increasing configurational entropy does not enhance relaxor behavior; instead, the system evolves from an ergodic relaxor state toward a ferroelectric-like state. This evolution is governed by crystal structure, BO₆ local environment, and polar nanoregions dynamics, whereas diffuse phase transition is associated with incommensurate modulation.

The journal Materials Reports: Solidwaste and Ecomaterials (MRSE) is welcoming submissions at this time. MRSE has a mission of communicating innovative and original research, interesting and critical thinking, development, and application of various solid wastes around the world. The editorial team will consider original research, reviews, progress reports, and communications that have the concept of turning solid wastes into unhazardous, useful, functional, and valuable ecomaterials. 

Engineers at the China Ship Scientific Research Center have developed an autoregressive deep-learning framework (VMD-BiGRU-QRNN) that predicts complex dynamic midship bending moments in severe ocean waves. Tested against physical tow-tank data from a 205,000 DWT bulk carrier, the system reached an average R² of 0.9533 and accurately captured high-frequency whipping peaks, providing crucial risk-assessment data to prevent structural catastrophic failures.

A field-based study from the Yunkai Mountains reveals divergent elevational diversity responses between overstory tree and understory plant communities, highlighting the necessity of integrating vertical stratification and full elevational gradients for tropical mountain biodiversity conservation.

Instead of being discarded after seawater desalination, concentrated brine can gain a second life as a chemical feedstock. Researchers have developed a solar-driven offshore continuous-flow platform that couples freshwater production with selective methane conversion by directly reusing desalination brine as the chlorine source. The integrated system simultaneously produces freshwater and chloromethane, offering a strategy for the in situ utilization of offshore natural gas resources and introducing a new approach to solar-driven offshore chemical manufacturing.

Recently, researchers from the Department of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgery Research Laboratory at West China Hospital of Sichuan University published a comprehensive review article in the Chinese Medical Journal focusing on the regulation and targeted therapy of the tumor immune and non-immune microenvironment. The review provides a complex scope of a new hotspot in glioma research and treatment: the glioma microenvironment and its targeted therapies.Recently, researchers from the Department of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgery Research Laboratory at West China Hospital of Sichuan University published a comprehensive review article in the Chinese Medical Journal focusing on the regulation and targeted therapy of the tumor immune and non-immune microenvironment. The review provides a complex scope of a new hotspot in glioma research and treatment: the glioma microenvironment and its targeted therapies.

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO₂RR) offers a route for sustainable chemical production using water as a clean proton source. However, water also promotes the competing hydrogen evolution reaction, limiting CO₂RR performance. Here we establish interfacial water as a decisive but overlooked design parameter for selective CO₂-to-ethanol electrolysis. A hetero-solvent microenvironment confining diglyme (DiG) near the Cu catalyst substantially suppresses HER under both neutral and alkaline conditions, where protons are supplied via water dissociation. In situ infrared absorption spectroscopy and theoretical calculation results reveal that DiG strengthens the hydrogen-bonding network of interfacial water, reducing free-water population prone to dissociation. Concurrently, the modulated water network effectively hinders solvent-mediated hydrogenation that favors ethylene formation, thereby promoting ethanol formation. Because this strategy modulates the microenvironment rather than the catalyst, it readily extends to Cu–Ag bimetallic catalyst. Moreover, confining hetero-solvent within microenvironment rather than in the bulk electrolyte enables high-current operation at low cell voltages, achieving an ethanol partial current density of 184.2 mA cm⁻² at 3.6 V under neutral condition.