Tests of a ladder of density functionals for bulk solids and surfaces

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Density functional theory: Foundations reviewed (2014, background): “[388]) in order to generate the so-called ‘‘non-empirical’’ functionals.”
Long Range Interactions in Nanoscale Science. (2010, background): “…successful in describing the properties in dense materials and isolated molecules, where local and semilocal approximations and their generalizations typically give satisfactory results Staroverov et al., 2003, 2004 ; hybrid functionals Sousa et al., 2007 play a special role in the molecular case.”
Piezoelectricity in two-dimensional group-III monochalcogenides (2015, result): “The structural parameters obtained from the DFT calculations are in perfect agreement with a previous study [35]; their slightly greater magnitude compared to the bulk experimental values can be attributed to the use of a PBE exchangecorrelation functional, which tends to overestimate lattice parame”
Quest for a universal density functional: the accuracy of density functionals across a broad spectrum of databases in chemistry and physics (2012, methodology): “We first used this database for the evaluation of the SOGGA functional [30]; reference data are taken from [104], and the geometry of each solid is optimized for each method.”