“…Over the last years it has become apparent that compounds ground or synthesized by high-energy ball milling often show a change in their properties, e.g., an enhanced ionic conductivity, compared to their micro- or monocrystalline counterparts prepared by conventional solid state synthesis routines. − Furthermore, the synthesis of compounds conducted by mechanical treatment of the starting materials, the so-called mechanosynthesis, is known to be a very efficient technique for the preparation of metastable, partly new, compounds. − A well-known specialty of this technique is the preparation of solid solutions of normally immiscible or hardly miscible phases. − In this respect, the BaF 2 –LaF 3 system is of particular interest. Ba 1– x La x F 2+ x crystallizes in the fluorite structure (space group Fm 3̅ m ) for compositions x ≲ 0.55 , and in the tysonite structure (space group P 3̅ c 1) for x ≳ 0.85 , .…”