All elastic constants and moduli decrease (increase) linearly with increasing tensile (compressive) strains.
Strain-induced changes in band gaps are highly asymmetric and nonlinear.
t-BC2N undergoes an indirect.→direct band-gap transition at εxx = −1.36%.
Crystal-field splitting energy decreases from positive to negative at a certain tensile strain.
IR-active phonon frequencies exhibit substantial red (blue) shifts under tensile (compressive) strains.