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Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm006148809 · Space group: Cm (#8)

Basic Information

Formula
BC
Alex-ID
agm006148809
Elements
2
Sites
12
Space group
Cm (#8)
Crystal system
monoclinic
Volume
85.69
ų
Cell a
6.3435
Å
Cell b
6.3435
Å
Cell c
5.3163
Å
α angle
100.71
°
β angle
100.71
°
γ angle
24.08
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
BC
B
6.00 · 50.0%
C
6.00 · 50.0%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.3897
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.3259
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-91.4968
eV
Raw total energy
-91.4968
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0538
eV
DOS at Fermi level
1.4433
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB_3558_spg8

Decomposition

B4C C

Computed at

2023-08-18 12:32:04.203114

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: agm006148809).

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 agm006148809
data_agm006148809
_cell_length_a     6.34351
_cell_length_b     6.34351
_cell_length_c     5.31631
_cell_angle_alpha  100.70744
_cell_angle_beta   100.70744
_cell_angle_gamma  24.07757
_cell_volume       85.68788
_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 0.02817 0.02817 0.07996 1.00000
  B2 B 0.35346 0.35346 0.08615 1.00000
  B3 B 0.23006 0.23006 0.42685 1.00000
  B4 B 0.98826 0.98826 0.47177 1.00000
  B5 B 0.88318 0.88318 0.64239 1.00000
  B6 B 0.59508 0.59508 0.56320 1.00000
  C1 C 0.91649 0.91649 0.17124 1.00000
  C2 C 0.67163 0.67163 0.33388 1.00000
  C3 C 0.32340 0.32340 0.67898 1.00000
  C4 C 0.24138 0.24138 0.87892 1.00000
  C5 C 0.66916 0.66916 0.85312 1.00000
  C6 C 0.59973 0.59973 0.06353 1.00000
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