To accelerate the transition to sustainable transport, researchers from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology investigated what motivates vehicle owners to replace their cars. By applying a Push-Pull-Mooring framework to 803 Chinese drivers, the study reveals that fuel vehicle owners are driven by pragmatic economic factors, while current electric vehicle owners are held by deep-seated habits and social reinforcement.

Reliable temperature sensing above 1000 °C remains difficult because conventional thermistor ceramics often suffer from nonlinear response and resistance drift during prolonged thermal exposure. Researchers developed Mo-regulated high-entropy niobate ceramics to coordinate local lattice distortion, carrier transport, and grain–grain-boundary energy barriers. The optimized ceramic delivered highly linear sensing from −50 to 1250 °C (R² = 0.99907), a B-value fluctuation of only 4.44%, and a stabilized-stage resistance drift of 1.09% after 1000 h at 1250 °C, showing the potential for hypersonic vehicles, aero-engines, and other extreme-temperature systems.

Ferroelectric materials are indispensable for next‑generation non‑volatile memories, sensors, and microwave devices. Among them, SrBi₂Ta₂O₉—a lead‑free Aurivillius‑phase layered compound—offers ultra‑low leakage current along the out‑of‑plane direction, yet its inherent structural anisotropy severely limits the in‑plane ferroelectric response in randomly oriented ceramics. Now, researchers at Harbin Institute of Technology have developed a synergistic strategy combining grain texturing and calcium doping to simultaneously boost the in‑plane remnant polarization and suppress in‑plane leakage, paving the way for high‑performance SrBi₂Ta₂O₉‑based devices.

Electromagnetic wave absorbers often face a fundamental challenge in balancing impedance matching with dielectric loss, limiting their broadband absorption performance. To overcome this limitation, Researchers developed lightweight SiC-based fibrous ceramic membranes by integrating electrospinning with the polymer-derived ceramics (PDC) route through precise control of the precursor composition and pyrolysis conditions. The optimized material achieved a minimum reflection loss of −27.12 dB and an effective absorption bandwidth of 8.22 GHz with a thickness of only 2.7 mm. By establishing a clear composition-structure-property relationship, this work provides a practical strategy for designing next-generation lightweight, broadband electromagnetic wave absorbers with significant potential for aerospace, stealth technology, and electromagnetic protection.