Anisotropic elastic properties and ideal uniaxial compressive strength of TiB<sub>2</sub> from first principles calculations

Anisotropic elastic properties and ideal uniaxial compressive strength of TiB₂ from first principles calculations

Sun Min¹, Wang Chong-Yu^{2, ‡}, Liu Ji-Ping^{1, †}

Schematic illustrations of (a) the hexagonal crystal structure, (b) the primitive cell, and (c) the orthogonal unit cell of TiB₂. The blue and red atoms are Ti and B atoms, respectively.