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Ca3AlH8

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Alex-ID: agm007209477 · Space group: P-3m1 (#164)

Basic Information

Formula
Ca3AlH8
Alex-ID
agm007209477
Elements
3
Sites
12
Space group
P-3m1 (#164)
Crystal system
trigonal
Volume
143.53
ų
Cell a
4.7720
Å
Cell b
4.7720
Å
Cell c
7.2779
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
120.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Ca3AlH8
Ca
3.00 · 25.0%
Al
1.00 · 8.3%
H
8.00 · 66.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.1990
eV/atom
Formation energy
-0.3375
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-39.7192
eV
Raw total energy
-39.7192
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0000
eV
DOS at Fermi level
2.5913
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB3C8_716_spg21

Decomposition

Ca2AlH7 Al CaH2

Computed at

2024-10-22 01:50:11.544067

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: agm007209477).

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 agm007209477
data_agm007209477
_cell_length_a     4.77205
_cell_length_b     4.77205
_cell_length_c     7.27791
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  120.00000
_cell_volume       143.53133
_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
  Ca1 Ca 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  Ca2 Ca 0.66667 0.33333 0.65106 1.00000
  Ca3 Ca 0.33333 0.66667 0.34894 1.00000
  Al1 Al 0.00000 0.00000 0.50000 1.00000
  H1 H 0.83073 0.66146 0.36022 1.00000
  H2 H 0.33854 0.16927 0.36022 1.00000
  H3 H 0.83073 0.16927 0.36022 1.00000
  H4 H 0.16927 0.33854 0.63978 1.00000
  H5 H 0.66146 0.83073 0.63978 1.00000
  H6 H 0.16927 0.83073 0.63978 1.00000
  H7 H 0.66667 0.33333 0.94838 1.00000
  H8 H 0.33333 0.66667 0.05162 1.00000
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