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SUBMITTER: Kang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4548252 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang Lei L Jiang Xingxing X Luo Siyang S Gong Pifu P Li Wei W Wu Xiang X Li Yanchun Y Li Xiaodong X Chen Chuangtian C Lin Zheshuai Z
Scientific reports 20150825
Negative linear compressibility (NLC), a rare and important mechanical effect with many application potentials, in a crystal of α-BiB3O6 (BIBO) is comprehensively investigated using first-principles calculations and high-pressure synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiments. The results indicate that the BIBO crystal exhibits the second largest NLC among all known inorganic materials over a broad pressure range. This unusual NLC behaviour is due to the rotation and displacement of the rigid [BO3] a ...[more]