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Li5Mg5Cd2

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005644767 · Space group: C2/m (#12)

Basic Information

Formula
Li5Mg5Cd2
Alex-ID
agm005644767
Elements
3
Sites
12
Space group
C2/m (#12)
Crystal system
monoclinic
Volume
240.32
ų
Cell a
4.8945
Å
Cell b
7.5001
Å
Cell c
7.7863
Å
α angle
65.41
°
β angle
71.68
°
γ angle
70.96
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Li5Mg5Cd2
Li
5.00 · 41.7%
Mg
5.00 · 41.7%
Cd
2.00 · 16.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.0168
eV/atom
Formation energy
-0.1208
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-20.8393
eV
Raw total energy
-20.8393
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0000
eV
DOS at Fermi level
4.2631
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

A2B5C5_15_spg12

Decomposition

Li2MgCd Li2Mg2Cd Li3Mg5

Computed at

2023-06-19 02:33:00.428938

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: agm005644767).

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 agm005644767
data_agm005644767
_cell_length_a     4.89451
_cell_length_b     7.50012
_cell_length_c     7.78625
_cell_angle_alpha  65.41028
_cell_angle_beta   71.68113
_cell_angle_gamma  70.95592
_cell_volume       240.32408
_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
  Li1 Li 0.92602 0.74857 0.39939 1.00000
  Li2 Li 0.24495 0.73007 0.78004 1.00000
  Li3 Li 0.75505 0.26993 0.21996 1.00000
  Li4 Li 0.07398 0.25143 0.60061 1.00000
  Li5 Li 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  Mg1 Mg 0.50000 0.50000 0.50000 1.00000
  Mg2 Mg 0.41284 0.24993 0.92439 1.00000
  Mg3 Mg 0.32133 0.00225 0.35510 1.00000
  Mg4 Mg 0.67867 0.99775 0.64490 1.00000
  Mg5 Mg 0.58716 0.75007 0.07561 1.00000
  Cd1 Cd 0.84102 0.51334 0.80461 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.15898 0.48666 0.19539 1.00000
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