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Mg6CrC

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Alex-ID: agm005490465 · Space group: Amm2 (#38)

Basic Information

Formula
Mg6CrC
Alex-ID
agm005490465
Elements
3
Sites
8
Space group
Amm2 (#38)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
157.67
ų
Cell a
6.3377
Å
Cell b
6.3377
Å
Cell c
4.5756
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
120.92
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Mg6CrC
Mg
6.00 · 75.0%
Cr
1.00 · 12.5%
C
1.00 · 12.5%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.6438
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.6191
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-23.4619
eV
Raw total energy
-23.4619
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0209
eV
DOS at Fermi level
2.7080
Total magnetisation
3.9782
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

ABC6_41_spg38

Decomposition

Cr3C2 Mg C

Computed at

2023-03-18 16:43:01.377770

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: agm005490465).

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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Raw CIF Data
# CIF generated by HEAS from Alexandria entry agm005490465
data_agm005490465
_cell_length_a     6.33774
_cell_length_b     6.33774
_cell_length_c     4.57558
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  120.91693
_cell_volume       157.67335
_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 0.83222 0.63585 0.00000 1.00000
  Mg2 Mg 0.36415 0.16778 0.00000 1.00000
  Mg3 Mg 0.66604 0.82425 0.50000 1.00000
  Mg4 Mg 0.17575 0.33396 0.50000 1.00000
  Mg5 Mg 0.17059 0.82941 0.50000 1.00000
  Mg6 Mg 0.70102 0.29898 0.50000 1.00000
  Cr1 Cr 0.32871 0.67129 0.00000 1.00000
  C1 C 0.76152 0.23848 0.00000 1.00000
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