“…A multitude of studies were undertaken to find if and how the mechanical behavior of single-phase Laves phases, especially the room-temperature fracture toughness, changes by compositional deviations from the ideal AB 2 stoichiometry (see, for example, [151, 364, 368, 380-382, 384, 386, 393, 394, 621]) or by substitutional replacement of the A or B metal by alloying additions (see, for example, [89,102,148,361,[621][622][623][624][625]). There was also a theoretical attempt to predict which element addition should be most effective in enhancing the fracture toughness.…”