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NiSnCl8

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm071552866 · Space group: P2_1 (#4)

Basic Information

Formula
NiSnCl8
Alex-ID
agm071552866
Elements
3
Sites
40
Space group
P2_1 (#4)
Crystal system
monoclinic
Volume
1,120.05
ų
Cell a
10.1760
Å
Cell b
10.1642
Å
Cell c
10.8290
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.07
°
γ angle
89.99
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
NiSnCl8
Ni
4.00 · 10.0%
Sn
4.00 · 10.0%
Cl
32.00 · 80.0%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.0361
eV/atom
Formation energy
-1.0848
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-122.6603
eV
Raw total energy
-122.6603
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
1.2804
eV
Direct band gap
1.2819
eV
DOS at Fermi level
-0.0073
Total magnetisation
7.3539
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

ABC8_325_spg212

Decomposition

NiCl4 SnCl4

Computed at

2025-03-13 06:17:07.031702

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: agm071552866).

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 agm071552866
data_agm071552866
_cell_length_a     10.17599
_cell_length_b     10.16424
_cell_length_c     10.82899
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00151
_cell_angle_beta   90.06952
_cell_angle_gamma  89.99494
_cell_volume       1120.05434
_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
  Ni1 Ni 0.62685 0.37872 0.37487 1.00000
  Ni2 Ni 0.87364 0.62585 0.87461 1.00000
  Ni3 Ni 0.37378 0.87867 0.12516 1.00000
  Ni4 Ni 0.12700 0.12575 0.62550 1.00000
  Sn1 Sn 0.12831 0.88047 0.87534 1.00000
  Sn2 Sn 0.37227 0.12404 0.37534 1.00000
  Sn3 Sn 0.87228 0.38064 0.62470 1.00000
  Sn4 Sn 0.62835 0.62390 0.12463 1.00000
  Cl1 Cl 0.93096 0.18193 0.12471 1.00000
  Cl2 Cl 0.54403 0.79476 0.62514 1.00000
  Cl3 Cl 0.06999 0.68150 0.37517 1.00000
  Cl4 Cl 0.45014 0.30194 0.87456 1.00000
  Cl5 Cl 0.06965 0.32030 0.12519 1.00000
  Cl6 Cl 0.40308 0.65879 0.62436 1.00000
  Cl7 Cl 0.59066 0.16543 0.87514 1.00000
  Cl8 Cl 0.93143 0.82005 0.37476 1.00000
  Cl9 Cl 0.38314 0.64163 0.12218 1.00000
  Cl10 Cl 0.11752 0.36341 0.62213 1.00000
  Cl11 Cl 0.61753 0.14178 0.37784 1.00000
  Cl12 Cl 0.88304 0.86313 0.87809 1.00000
  Cl13 Cl 0.87264 0.62333 0.65078 1.00000
  Cl14 Cl 0.37301 0.88144 0.34843 1.00000
  Cl15 Cl 0.62764 0.38141 0.15134 1.00000
  Cl16 Cl 0.12803 0.12309 0.84929 1.00000
  Cl17 Cl 0.36368 0.12176 0.60488 1.00000
  Cl18 Cl 0.63723 0.62211 0.89504 1.00000
  Cl19 Cl 0.86186 0.38238 0.39455 1.00000
  Cl20 Cl 0.13879 0.88238 0.10546 1.00000
  Cl21 Cl 0.61095 0.86912 0.12838 1.00000
  Cl22 Cl 0.88912 0.13585 0.62791 1.00000
  Cl23 Cl 0.11123 0.63562 0.87246 1.00000
  Cl24 Cl 0.38966 0.36918 0.37161 1.00000
  Cl25 Cl 0.63005 0.38070 0.59850 1.00000
  Cl26 Cl 0.37064 0.88026 0.90166 1.00000
  Cl27 Cl 0.87034 0.62452 0.09902 1.00000
  Cl28 Cl 0.13027 0.12457 0.40114 1.00000
  Cl29 Cl 0.13009 0.89120 0.64522 1.00000
  Cl30 Cl 0.63011 0.61339 0.35506 1.00000
  Cl31 Cl 0.87045 0.39157 0.85495 1.00000
  Cl32 Cl 0.37055 0.11344 0.14492 1.00000
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