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MgAl3Br

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm002524924 · Space group: Pm-3m (#221)

Basic Information

Formula
MgAl3Br
Alex-ID
agm002524924
Elements
3
Sites
5
Space group
Pm-3m (#221)
Crystal system
cubic
Volume
150.68
ų
Cell a
5.3213
Å
Cell b
5.3213
Å
Cell c
5.3213
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
90.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
MgAl3Br
Mg
1.00 · 20.0%
Al
3.00 · 60.0%
Br
1.00 · 20.0%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
1.2492
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.7889
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-10.5598
eV
Raw total energy
-10.5598
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0000
eV
DOS at Fermi level
2.6904
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

ABC3_0_spg221

Decomposition

Mg6Al7 MgAl19 MgBr2

Computed at

2015-11-29 15:36:22

Citation

Alexandria website
https://alexandria.icams.rub.de/
Attribution

The crystal structure and related material properties of this entry were obtained from the Alexandria database (Alex-ID: agm002524924).

Reference

Th. Cavignac, J. Schmidt, P.-P. De Breuck, A. Loew, T. F. T. Cerqueira, H.-C. Wang, A. Bochkarev, Y. Lysogorskiy, A. H. Romero, R. Drautz, S. Botti and M. A. L. Marques. AI-Driven expansion and application of the Alexandria database. J. Phys. Mater. 9, 025014 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ae6620

BibTeX
@article{Cavignac2026Alexandria,
  author  = {Cavignac, Th{\'e}o and Schmidt, Jonathan and De Breuck, Pierre-Paul and Loew, Antoine
             and Cerqueira, Tiago F. T. and Wang, Hai-Chen and Bochkarev, Anton
             and Lysogorskiy, Yury and Romero, Aldo H. and Drautz, Ralf and Botti, Silvana
             and Marques, Miguel A. L.},
  title   = {{AI}-Driven expansion and application of the {A}lexandria database},
  journal = {Journal of Physics: Materials},
  year    = {2026},
  volume  = {9},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {025014},
  doi     = {10.1088/2515-7639/ae6620},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ae6620}
}

3D Crystal Structure Rendering

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Style: Ball & Stick
Raw CIF Data
# CIF generated by HEAS from Alexandria entry agm002524924
data_agm002524924
_cell_length_a     5.32126
_cell_length_b     5.32126
_cell_length_c     5.32126
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  90.00000
_cell_volume       150.67542
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M 'P 1'
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number 1
loop_
_symmetry_equiv_pos_as_xyz
  'x, y, z'
loop_
_atom_site_label
_atom_site_type_symbol
_atom_site_fract_x
_atom_site_fract_y
_atom_site_fract_z
_atom_site_occupancy
  Mg1 Mg 0.50000 0.50000 0.50000 1.00000
  Al1 Al 0.00000 0.50000 0.00000 1.00000
  Al2 Al 0.00000 0.00000 0.50000 1.00000
  Al3 Al 0.50000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  Br1 Br 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
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