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B3C

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm070938469 · Space group: Cmmm (#65)

Basic Information

Formula
B3C
Alex-ID
agm070938469
Elements
2
Sites
8
Space group
Cmmm (#65)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
60.41
ų
Cell a
2.6310
Å
Cell b
4.8591
Å
Cell c
6.0057
Å
α angle
51.88
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
90.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
B3C
B
6.00 · 75.0%
C
2.00 · 25.0%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.4521
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.3564
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-55.6608
eV
Raw total energy
-55.6608
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0205
eV
DOS at Fermi level
2.0825
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB3_182_spg2

Decomposition

B4C C

Computed at

2024-07-18 17:03:25.410129

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: agm070938469).

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 agm070938469
data_agm070938469
_cell_length_a     2.63100
_cell_length_b     4.85915
_cell_length_c     6.00566
_cell_angle_alpha  51.88321
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  90.00000
_cell_volume       60.40598
_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 0.00000 0.49951 0.86235 1.00000
  B2 B 0.00000 0.50049 0.13765 1.00000
  B3 B 0.00000 0.06347 0.21826 1.00000
  B4 B 0.00000 0.93653 0.78174 1.00000
  B5 B 0.50000 0.49987 0.34732 1.00000
  B6 B 0.50000 0.50013 0.65268 1.00000
  C1 C 0.50000 0.14096 0.67927 1.00000
  C2 C 0.50000 0.85904 0.32073 1.00000
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