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MgSc3

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005497450 · Space group: Cmcm (#63)

Basic Information

Formula
MgSc3
Alex-ID
agm005497450
Elements
2
Sites
8
Space group
Cmcm (#63)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
202.75
ų
Cell a
6.1744
Å
Cell b
6.1744
Å
Cell c
5.3205
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
91.62
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
MgSc3
Mg
2.00 · 25.0%
Sc
6.00 · 75.0%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.2709
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.2444
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-39.2231
eV
Raw total energy
-39.2231
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0001
eV
DOS at Fermi level
12.8171
Total magnetisation
0.0009
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB3_4_spg59

Decomposition

MgSc2 Sc

Computed at

2023-03-19 01:53:03.312717

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: agm005497450).

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 agm005497450
data_agm005497450
_cell_length_a     6.17438
_cell_length_b     6.17438
_cell_length_c     5.32047
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  91.61847
_cell_volume       202.75132
_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 0.58422 0.58422 0.25000 1.00000
  Mg2 Mg 0.41578 0.41578 0.75000 1.00000
  Sc1 Sc 0.07829 0.07829 0.75000 1.00000
  Sc2 Sc 0.92171 0.92171 0.25000 1.00000
  Sc3 Sc 0.90525 0.57521 0.75000 1.00000
  Sc4 Sc 0.09475 0.42479 0.25000 1.00000
  Sc5 Sc 0.57521 0.90525 0.75000 1.00000
  Sc6 Sc 0.42479 0.09475 0.25000 1.00000
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