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B2C3

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm006147207 · Space group: Cm (#8)

Basic Information

Formula
B2C3
Alex-ID
agm006147207
Elements
2
Sites
10
Space group
Cm (#8)
Crystal system
monoclinic
Volume
65.34
ų
Cell a
4.5496
Å
Cell b
4.5496
Å
Cell c
6.5699
Å
α angle
65.86
°
β angle
65.86
°
γ angle
32.07
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
B2C3
B
4.00 · 40.0%
C
6.00 · 60.0%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.4219
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.3709
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-78.3441
eV
Raw total energy
-78.3441
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.1035
eV
DOS at Fermi level
0.7333
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

A2B3_1106_spg8

Decomposition

B4C C

Computed at

2023-08-18 14:37:14.029579

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: agm006147207).

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 agm006147207
data_agm006147207
_cell_length_a     4.54955
_cell_length_b     4.54955
_cell_length_c     6.56991
_cell_angle_alpha  65.86490
_cell_angle_beta   65.86490
_cell_angle_gamma  32.07085
_cell_volume       65.34401
_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
  B1 B 0.97984 0.97984 0.02736 1.00000
  B2 B 0.60866 0.60866 0.85356 1.00000
  B3 B 0.59494 0.59494 0.55887 1.00000
  B4 B 0.40363 0.40363 0.40217 1.00000
  C1 C 0.78993 0.78993 0.05591 1.00000
  C2 C 0.80599 0.80599 0.80265 1.00000
  C3 C 0.39738 0.39738 0.68265 1.00000
  C4 C 0.20836 0.20836 0.42805 1.00000
  C5 C 0.19943 0.19943 0.19274 1.00000
  C6 C 0.01182 0.01182 0.24604 1.00000
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