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MgSi2

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MP-ID: mp-1073408 · Space group: P-1 (#2)

Basic Information

Formula
MgSi2
MP-ID
mp-1073408
Elements
2
Sites
12
Density
2.3329
g/cm³
Volume
229.13
ų
Cell a
3.7313
Å
Cell b
5.2620
Å
Cell c
12.6248
Å
α Angle
79.96
°
β Angle
83.96
°
γ Angle
70.03
°
Space Group
P-1
Point Group
-1
Crystal System
Triclinic
Bravais Lattice
Triclinic P
Stability
No
Packing Fraction
0.5240

X-ray Diffraction

Diffraction Pattern
X-axis: 2θ (°); Y-axis: relative intensity; CuKa ; λ=1.5406 Å
Diffraction Peaks (Top 24)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
7.12 12.4164 34.0 (0,0,1)
18.14 4.8912 8.2 (0,1,0)
18.49 4.7995 16.8 (0,1,1)
21.40 4.1524 10.4 (0,1,2)
21.47 4.1388 21.4 (0,0,3)
24.79 3.5922 3.4 (0,1,-2)
25.84 3.4478 1.1 (1,1,1)
26.09 3.4155 1.3 (1,0,1)
26.78 3.3285 2.9 (1,0,-1)
27.70 3.2201 7.8 (1,1,2)
27.99 3.1877 40.9 (1,1,-1)
28.64 3.1172 37.8 (1,0,2)
28.76 3.1041 23.4 (0,0,4)
29.90 2.9882 18.6 (1,0,-2)
30.28 2.9514 21.5 (0,1,-3)
31.21 2.8662 14.2 (1,1,3)
31.64 2.8282 1.4 (1,1,-2)
31.77 2.8162 1.3 (0,1,4)
32.67 2.7413 9.4 (1,0,3)
34.35 2.6109 12.0 (1,0,-3)
35.92 2.5001 9.6 (1,1,4)
36.13 2.4858 16.8 (1,-1,0)
36.17 2.4833 3.9 (0,0,5)
36.38 2.4698 15.4 (0,2,1)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
0.17921
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-3.98116
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.2335
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-4.0285
eV/atom
Volume/atom
19.09
ų
c/a Ratio
-

Electronic Properties

Metallic
Metal
Band Gap
0
eV
Direct Gap
No
CBM
N/A
eV

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
No
Total Mag. Moment
0.0005
μB
Mag. Ordering
NM
Mag. Sites
0
Magnetization/Volume
0.000000
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
Si · 0.667
Element Family
N/A
Solute Fraction
0.333
Interstitial Fraction
0.667

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar
Rating & Classification
Tier
A
Score
0.547
Family
Binary Alloy
Matrix Element
Si · 0.667

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (2)

Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-1073408
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of MgSi2 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-1073408, database version v2026.04.13).

Literature Citation

Horton, M.K., Huck, P., Yang, R.X. et al. Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project. Nat. Mater. 24, 1522–1532 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0

BibTeX
@article{Horton2025,
  author  = {Horton, Matthew K. and Huck, Patrick and Yang, Ruo Xi and Munro, Jason M. and Dwaraknath, Shyam and Ganose, Alex M. and Kingsbury, Ryan S. and Wen, Mingjian and Shen, Jimmy X. and Mathis, Tyler S. and Kaplan, Aaron D. and Berket, Karlo and Riebesell, Janosh and George, Janine and Rosen, Andrew S. and Spotte-Smith, Evan W. C. and McDermott, Matthew J. and Cohen, Orion A. and Dunn, Alex and Kuner, Matthew C. and Rignanese, Gian-Marco and Petretto, Guido and Waroquiers, David and Griffin, Sinead M. and Neaton, Jeffrey B. and Chrzan, Daryl C. and Asta, Mark and Hautier, Geoffroy and Cholia, Shreyas and Ceder, Gerbrand and Ong, Shyue Ping and Jain, Anubhav and Persson, Kristin A.},
  title   = {Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project},
  journal = {Nature Materials},
  year    = {2025},
  volume  = {24},
  number  = {10},
  pages   = {1522--1532},
  month   = {oct},
  doi     = {10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0},
  issn    = {1476-4660},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0},
  abstract = {The Materials Project was launched formally in 2011 to drive materials discovery forwards through high-throughput computation and open data. More than a decade later, the Materials Project has become an indispensable tool used by more than 600,000 materials researchers around the world. This Perspective describes how the Materials Project, as a data platform and a software ecosystem, has helped to shape research in data-driven materials science. We cover how sustainable software and computational methods have accelerated materials design while becoming more open source and collaborative in nature. Next, we present cases where the Materials Project was used to understand and discover functional materials. We then describe our efforts to meet the needs of an expanding user base, through technical infrastructure updates ranging from data architecture and cloud resources to interactive web applications. Finally, we discuss opportunities to better aid the research community, with the vision that more accessible and easy-to-understand materials data will result in democratized materials knowledge and an increasingly collaborative community.}
}

3D Crystal Structure Rendering

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Raw CIF Data
# generated using pymatgen
data_MgSi2
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   3.73127500
_cell_length_b   5.26198003
_cell_length_c   12.62475805
_cell_angle_alpha   79.96365382
_cell_angle_beta   83.96145444
_cell_angle_gamma   70.03202632
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   MgSi2
_chemical_formula_sum   'Mg4 Si8'
_cell_volume   229.12720836
_cell_formula_units_Z   4
loop_
 _symmetry_equiv_pos_site_id
 _symmetry_equiv_pos_as_xyz
  1  'x, y, z'
loop_
 _atom_site_type_symbol
 _atom_site_label
 _atom_site_symmetry_multiplicity
 _atom_site_fract_x
 _atom_site_fract_y
 _atom_site_fract_z
 _atom_site_occupancy
  Mg  Mg0  1  0.15000700  0.98183700  0.81637300  1.0
  Mg  Mg1  1  0.84999300  0.01816300  0.18362700  1.0
  Mg  Mg2  1  0.42586500  0.76790400  0.39738300  1.0
  Mg  Mg3  1  0.57413500  0.23209600  0.60261700  1.0
  Si  Si4  1  0.51178200  0.77010300  0.03970300  1.0
  Si  Si5  1  0.48821800  0.22989700  0.96029700  1.0
  Si  Si6  1  0.86455000  0.57183600  0.70467200  1.0
  Si  Si7  1  0.71066700  0.20609800  0.38870200  1.0
  Si  Si8  1  0.87747700  0.51914200  0.89528300  1.0
  Si  Si9  1  0.12252300  0.48085800  0.10471700  1.0
  Si  Si10  1  0.13545000  0.42816400  0.29532800  1.0
  Si  Si11  1  0.28933300  0.79390200  0.61129800  1.0
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