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Sc3(CuGe)4

High-Entropy Materials HEA Traditional Materials TRA

MP-ID: mp-1102311 · Space group: Immm (#71)

Basic Information

Formula
Sc3(CuGe)4
MP-ID
mp-1102311
Elements
3
Sites
11
Density
6.3823
g/cm³
Volume
176.82
ų
Cell a
4.0411
Å
Cell b
6.5366
Å
Cell c
7.7184
Å
α Angle
115.05
°
β Angle
105.18
°
γ Angle
90.00
°
Space Group
Immm
Point Group
mmm
Crystal System
Orthorhombic
Bravais Lattice
Orthorhombic I
Stability
Yes
Packing Fraction
0.6800

X-ray Diffraction

Diffraction Pattern
X-axis: 2θ (°); Y-axis: relative intensity; CuKa ; λ=1.5406 Å
Diffraction Peaks (Top 24)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
13.23 6.6939 20.6 (0,0,1)
22.99 3.8687 24.9 (1,0,0)
24.15 3.6856 17.8 (0,1,1)
25.92 3.4373 3.6 (1,-1,0)
26.63 3.3470 4.3 (0,0,2)
30.44 2.9369 5.2 (0,2,0)
35.97 2.4966 100.0 (1,2,-1)
36.26 2.4778 23.4 (0,1,2)
37.51 2.3980 73.8 (1,1,1)
40.41 2.2321 12.6 (1,0,2)
40.42 2.2313 26.9 (0,0,3)
40.87 2.2083 17.9 (1,2,0)
40.87 2.2083 6.0 (1,2,-3)
44.86 2.0206 53.6 (2,0,-1)
46.37 1.9580 29.1 (0,3,0)
46.97 1.9344 1.8 (2,0,0)
47.40 1.9179 8.4 (1,-3,1)
49.43 1.8437 40.8 (1,3,-1)
49.45 1.8432 42.7 (1,2,1)
49.46 1.8428 15.5 (0,2,2)
49.67 1.8356 6.2 (0,1,3)
51.59 1.7718 4.8 (2,1,0)
52.97 1.7287 4.8 (1,0,3)
52.97 1.7287 4.8 (1,0,-4)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-0.56730
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-5.46606
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0000
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-5.4661
eV/atom
Volume/atom
16.07
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
0.0006
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
Cu · 0.364
Element Family
3d-TM
Solute Fraction
0.636
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

High-Entropy Alloy Features

Composite Radar (normalized)
Element-Class Share
Mix Entropy ΔS/R
1.0901
HEA criterion (>1.0 = high entropy)
Mix Entropy ΔS
9.0628
J/mol·K
Ω Parameter
0.3536
Ω > 1.1 favors solid solution
Atomic Size Mismatch δr
11.648%
δr < 6.6% favors single-phase solid solution
Electronegativity Diff Δχ
0.2691
smaller = more stable mixing
VEC
6.273
valence electron concentration, affects phase stability
Mix Enthalpy ΔH_mix
-36.625
kJ/mol; negative = exothermic mixing
Entropy Norm
0.9922
SS Former
0
Phase Tendency
AM

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar
Rating & Classification
Tier
B
Score
0.608
Family
Cu-rich Multi-Component
Matrix Element
Cu · 0.364

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (1)

Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-1102311
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of Sc3(CuGe)4 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-1102311, 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_Sc3(CuGe)4
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   4.04111300
_cell_length_b   6.53661300
_cell_length_c   7.71836659
_cell_angle_alpha   115.05229511
_cell_angle_beta   105.17603029
_cell_angle_gamma   90.00000000
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   Sc3(CuGe)4
_chemical_formula_sum   'Sc3 Cu4 Ge4'
_cell_volume   176.82147106
_cell_formula_units_Z   1
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
  Sc  Sc0  1  0.00000000  0.50000000  0.00000000  1.0
  Sc  Sc1  1  0.87287400  0.87287400  0.74574800  1.0
  Sc  Sc2  1  0.12712600  0.12712600  0.25425200  1.0
  Cu  Cu3  1  0.67190200  0.47808300  0.34380400  1.0
  Cu  Cu4  1  0.67190200  0.86572100  0.34380400  1.0
  Cu  Cu5  1  0.32809800  0.13427900  0.65619600  1.0
  Cu  Cu6  1  0.32809800  0.52191700  0.65619600  1.0
  Ge  Ge7  1  0.78406700  0.28406700  0.56813400  1.0
  Ge  Ge8  1  0.21593300  0.71593300  0.43186600  1.0
  Ge  Ge9  1  0.50000000  0.80662700  0.00000000  1.0
  Ge  Ge10  1  0.50000000  0.19337300  0.00000000  1.0
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