The simple binary fluoride α‐SnF2 is shown to be an excellent birefringent material with
outstanding birefringence, about 14 times that of MgF2. Furthermore, it exhibits a shorter UV …

While all materials reduce their intrinsic volume under hydrostatic (uniform) compression, a
select few actually expand along one or more directions during this process of densification …

Rutile type crystal structures and their derivatives are based on the same topology of primary
bonds: straight chains of edge-sharing coordination octahedra are connected via corner …

BAs is a III–V semiconductor with ultra-high thermal conductivity, but many of its electronic
properties are unknown. This work applies predictive atomistic calculations to investigate the …

Water treatment based on electrocoagulation (EC) is attractive since required chemicals and
colloids are produced in-situ. However, optimisation of EC operation parameters is …

A detailed theoretical study of structural, electronic, elastic, thermodynamic and optical
properties of rutile type MgF2 has been carried out by means of first-principles Density …

Phase transitions and equations of state of the alkaline earth fluorides CaF 2, SrF 2, and BaF
2 were examined by static compression to pressures as high as 146 GPa. Angle-dispersive …

We report systematic ab initio calculations of the electronic band structure, phonon
dispersion relation, and the structural characterization of FeF 2 in the rutile (P 4 2/mnm) …

The pressure-induced structural phase transition of MgH 2 was examined up to 57 GPa at
room temperature. α-MgH 2 with the rutile-type structure at ambient conditions transformed …

Straining the vanadium dimers along the rutile c‐axis can be used to tune the metal‐to‐
insulator transition (MIT) of VO2 but has thus far been limited to TiO2 substrates. In this work …