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Cr2C

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005477083 · Space group: C2/m (#12)

Basic Information

Formula
Cr2C
Alex-ID
agm005477083
Elements
2
Sites
6
Space group
C2/m (#12)
Crystal system
monoclinic
Volume
55.63
ų
Cell a
4.3082
Å
Cell b
4.3082
Å
Cell c
5.8363
Å
α angle
58.46
°
β angle
58.46
°
γ angle
38.07
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Cr2C
Cr
4.00 · 66.7%
C
2.00 · 33.3%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.1724
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.0524
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-56.6268
eV
Raw total energy
-56.6268
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0075
eV
DOS at Fermi level
3.9671
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB2_83_spg12

Decomposition

Cr3C2 Cr7C3

Computed at

2023-03-19 07:39:38.753370

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: agm005477083).

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 agm005477083
data_agm005477083
_cell_length_a     4.30816
_cell_length_b     4.30816
_cell_length_c     5.83630
_cell_angle_alpha  58.45806
_cell_angle_beta   58.45806
_cell_angle_gamma  38.06866
_cell_volume       55.63346
_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
  Cr1 Cr 0.83630 0.83630 0.57133 1.00000
  Cr2 Cr 0.58111 0.58111 0.11730 1.00000
  Cr3 Cr 0.41889 0.41889 0.88270 1.00000
  Cr4 Cr 0.16370 0.16370 0.42867 1.00000
  C1 C 0.15492 0.15492 0.80974 1.00000
  C2 C 0.84508 0.84508 0.19026 1.00000
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