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WC8

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005504643 · Space group: I4/mmm (#139)

Basic Information

Formula
WC8
Alex-ID
agm005504643
Elements
2
Sites
9
Space group
I4/mmm (#139)
Crystal system
tetragonal
Volume
189.00
ų
Cell a
8.8010
Å
Cell b
8.8010
Å
Cell c
8.8010
Å
α angle
91.15
°
β angle
91.15
°
γ angle
163.74
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
WC8
W
1.00 · 11.1%
C
8.00 · 88.9%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
2.6117
eV/atom
Formation energy
2.5833
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-63.4947
eV
Raw total energy
-63.4947
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.3201
eV
DOS at Fermi level
4.5903
Total magnetisation
0.3550
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB8_27_spg139

Decomposition

WC C

Computed at

2023-03-19 12:36:52.025737

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: agm005504643).

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 agm005504643
data_agm005504643
_cell_length_a     8.80102
_cell_length_b     8.80102
_cell_length_c     8.80102
_cell_angle_alpha  91.14655
_cell_angle_beta   91.14655
_cell_angle_gamma  163.73581
_cell_volume       189.00415
_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
  W1 W 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  C1 C 0.75008 0.24992 0.00000 1.00000
  C2 C 0.24992 0.75008 0.00000 1.00000
  C3 C 0.00000 0.57199 0.57199 1.00000
  C4 C 0.24992 0.24992 0.49985 1.00000
  C5 C 0.57199 0.00000 0.57199 1.00000
  C6 C 0.75008 0.75008 0.50015 1.00000
  C7 C 0.00000 0.42801 0.42801 1.00000
  C8 C 0.42801 0.00000 0.42801 1.00000
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