Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011
It will be shown that in the considered paper, a mistake occurred by handling or editing of experimental data for one of two investigated materials, namely, for cubic germanium nitride having spinel structure (γ-Ge3N4). This mistake led to incorrect values of the shear modulus G0, Young’s modulus E0, and Poisson’s ratio ν0 of this compound. My effort to recover the elastic moduli of γ-Ge3N4 from the available data gave the following results: G0 = 124 GPa, E0 = 326 GPa, and ν0 = 0.32.