SnO2: A comprehensive review on structures and gas sensors

S Das, V Jayaraman - Progress in Materials Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Metal oxides possess exceptional potential as base materials in emerging technologies. In
recent times, significant amount of research works is carried out on these materials to assess …

Tin oxide based nanostructured materials: synthesis and potential applications

SR Mishra, M Ahmaruzzaman - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In view of their inimitable characteristics and properties, SnO2 nanomaterials and
nanocomposites have been used not only in the field of diverse advanced catalytic …

First-principles calculations of the ferroelastic transition between rutile-type and -type at high pressures

A Togo, F Oba, I Tanaka - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2008 - APS
The tetragonal to orthorhombic ferroelastic phase transition between rutile-and CaCl 2-type
SiO 2 at high pressures is studied using first-principles calculations and the Landau free …

Electronic structure, properties, and phase stability of inorganic crystals: A pseudopotential plane‐wave study

V Milman, B Winkler, JA White… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Recent developments in density functional theory (DFT) methods applicable to studies of
large periodic systems are outlined. During the past three decades, DFT has become an …

Thermodynamics of mantle minerals-II. Phase equilibria

L Stixrude, C Lithgow-Bertelloni - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We complete the development and description of a thermodynamic method for the
computation of phase equilibria and physical properties of multiphase mantle assemblages …

Elastic instabilities in crystals from ab initio stress-strain relations

BB Karki, GJ Ackland, J Crain - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
Pressure-induced elastic instabilities are investigated in the prototypic ionic and covalent
solids (MgO, CaO, and Si) using generalized elastic stability criteria based on the elastic …

On the rigidity of amorphous solids

M Wyart - arxiv preprint cond-mat/0512155, 2005 - arxiv.org
We poorly understand the properties of amorphous systems at small length scales, where a
continuous elastic description breaks down. This is apparent when one considers their …

Thermal expansivity, heat capacity and bulk modulus of the mantle

L Stixrude, C Lithgow-Bertelloni - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We derive exact expressions for the thermal expansivity, heat capacity and bulk modulus for
assemblages with arbitrarily large numbers of components and phases, including the …

High‐pressure elastic properties of major materials of Earth's mantle from first principles

BB Karki, L Stixrude… - Reviews of Geophysics, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The elasticity of materials is important for our understanding of processes ranging from brittle
failure, to flexure, to the propagation of elastic waves. Seismologically revealed structure of …

Polymorphism in silica studied in the local density and generalized-gradient approximations

T Demuth, Y Jeanvoine, J Hafner… - Journal of Physics …, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
The crystal structures of a large number of silica polytypes (-and-quartz,-and-cristobalite,-
tridymite, keatite, coesite and stishovite) have been studied using density functional theory …