<i>Ab initio</i> study on the anisotropy of mechanical behavior and deformation mechanism for boron carbide

Ab initio study on the anisotropy of mechanical behavior and deformation mechanism for boron carbide

Li Jun¹, Xu Shuang¹, Zhang Jin-Yong², Liu Li-Sheng^{2, †}, Liu Qi-Wen¹, She Wu-Chang¹, Fu Zheng-Yi²

(color online) Atomic structure of polar boron carbide B₁₁C –CBC in the hexagonal unit cells. The red balls in the figure denote the C atoms, and the blue balls refer to the B atoms.