Li6Ni3Sn(PO4)6

High-Entropy Materials HEA

MP-ID: mp-1176956 · Space group: P1 (#1)

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Basic Information

Formula

Li6Ni3Sn(PO4)6

MP-ID

mp-1176956

Elements

Sites

Density

3.1799

g/cm³

Volume

473.24

Å³

Cell a

8.5755

Cell b

8.6403

Cell c

8.6399

α Angle

61.92

β Angle

62.13

γ Angle

62.05

Space Group

Point Group

Crystal System

Triclinic

Bravais Lattice

Triclinic P

Stability

Packing Fraction

0.5240

X-ray Diffraction

Diffraction Pattern

Target / Radiation

X-axis: 2θ (°); Y-axis: relative intensity; CuKa ; λ=1.5406 Å

Diffraction Peaks (Top 24)

2θ	d (Å)	I	hkl
12.24	7.2305	8.5	(0,0,1)
12.25	7.2257	6.2	(0,1,0)
12.32	7.1849	15.4	(1,0,0)
12.78	6.9266	7.9	(1,1,1)
14.27	6.2075	47.0	(0,1,1)
14.35	6.1731	24.2	(1,1,0)
14.36	6.1661	30.0	(1,0,1)
19.97	4.4451	70.7	(0,1,-1)
19.99	4.4413	62.4	(1,0,-1)
20.01	4.4365	62.7	(1,-1,0)
20.58	4.3157	100.0	(1,2,1)
20.58	4.3153	99.4	(1,1,2)
20.73	4.2844	99.0	(2,1,1)
23.50	3.7850	2.6	(1,-1,-1)
23.52	3.7824	4.0	(1,1,-1)
23.55	3.7779	1.5	(1,-1,1)
23.71	3.7528	34.4	(0,1,2)
23.72	3.7508	77.8	(0,2,1)
23.78	3.7419	33.9	(1,2,0)
23.79	3.7401	77.9	(1,0,2)
23.89	3.7249	77.2	(2,1,0)
23.91	3.7212	34.7	(2,0,1)
24.25	3.6707	3.2	(1,2,2)
24.38	3.6505	3.5	(2,2,1)

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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom

-2.33877

eV/atom

Energy/atom

-6.93996

eV/atom

Energy above Hull

0.0876

eV/atom

Uncorrected Energy

-6.3372

eV/atom

Volume/atom

11.83

Å³

c/a Ratio

Electronic Properties

Metallic

Metal

Band Gap

Direct Gap

CBM

N/A

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic

Yes

Total Mag. Moment

5.9805

μB

Mag. Ordering

Mag. Sites

Magnetization/Volume

0.012640

μB/Å³

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)

Composition Info

Major / Matrix Element

O · 0.600

Element Family

Metalloid-Nonmetal

Solute Fraction

0.400

Interstitial Fraction

0.150

High-Entropy Alloy Features

Composite Radar (normalized)

Element-Class Share

Mix Entropy ΔS/R

1.1621

HEA criterion (>1.0 = high entropy)

Mix Entropy ΔS

9.6619

J/mol·K

Ω Parameter

0.2299

Ω > 1.1 favors solid solution

Atomic Size Mismatch δr

41.632%

δr < 6.6% favors single-phase solid solution

Electronegativity Diff Δχ

0.9332

smaller = more stable mixing

VEC

4.150

valence electron concentration, affects phase stability

Mix Enthalpy ΔH_mix

-12.220

kJ/mol; negative = exothermic mixing

Entropy Norm

0.7221

SS Former

Phase Tendency

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (1)

aaadzhys

Citation & References

Materials Project Page

https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-1176956

Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of Li6Ni3Sn(PO4)6 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-1176956, 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.}
}

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Raw CIF Data

# generated using pymatgen
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_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   8.57546400
_cell_length_b   8.64027816
_cell_length_c   8.63988182
_cell_angle_alpha   61.92445628
_cell_angle_beta   62.12556445
_cell_angle_gamma   62.04946600
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   Li6Ni3Sn(PO4)6
_chemical_formula_sum   'Li6 Ni3 Sn1 P6 O24'
_cell_volume   473.24439805
_cell_formula_units_Z   1
loop_
 _symmetry_equiv_pos_site_id
 _symmetry_equiv_pos_as_xyz
  1  'x, y, z'
loop_
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 _atom_site_label
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 _atom_site_fract_x
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  Li  Li0  1  0.97897900  0.99840100  0.98522000  1.0
  Li  Li1  1  0.25699200  0.65212800  0.84832700  1.0
  Li  Li2  1  0.52070000  0.51387400  0.49808200  1.0
  Li  Li3  1  0.69702600  0.35778200  0.16469000  1.0
  Li  Li4  1  0.35482500  0.16423700  0.69738600  1.0
  Li  Li5  1  0.16610700  0.69262500  0.35781500  1.0
  Ni  Ni6  1  0.85927000  0.85330600  0.85547100  1.0
  Ni  Ni7  1  0.64242600  0.64443700  0.64596100  1.0
  Ni  Ni8  1  0.35381700  0.35013700  0.35292900  1.0
  Sn  Sn9  1  0.14494200  0.14438600  0.14859200  1.0
  P  P10  1  0.25160800  0.95133900  0.55485500  1.0
  P  P11  1  0.94709400  0.55461400  0.25374600  1.0
  P  P12  1  0.55638800  0.24906800  0.95014500  1.0
  P  P13  1  0.74859100  0.04531600  0.45924400  1.0
  P  P14  1  0.45276500  0.74544000  0.04238700  1.0
  P  P15  1  0.05071200  0.46135900  0.75152200  1.0
  O  O16  1  0.87754100  0.50620900  0.71358100  1.0
  O  O17  1  0.69797400  0.88394300  0.49291700  1.0
  O  O18  1  0.94380400  0.73672400  0.08724100  1.0
  O  O19  1  0.45483200  0.69965500  0.89038500  1.0
  O  O20  1  0.98239600  0.39194200  0.19480800  1.0
  O  O21  1  0.75805900  0.57231200  0.40659800  1.0
  O  O22  1  0.74546700  0.09472900  0.92406600  1.0
  O  O23  1  0.55147500  0.41410700  0.76867200  1.0
  O  O24  1  0.81416100  0.01039700  0.61209800  1.0
  O  O25  1  0.40266300  0.75830700  0.57031400  1.0
  O  O26  1  0.89735900  0.08279500  0.25754700  1.0
  O  O27  1  0.61591700  0.80283500  0.99252700  1.0
  O  O28  1  0.39557600  0.18251400  0.99265600  1.0
  O  O29  1  0.09855400  0.92729300  0.74697800  1.0
  O  O30  1  0.58550000  0.23307800  0.44680100  1.0
  O  O31  1  0.18405000  0.99058900  0.39763200  1.0
  O  O32  1  0.44737500  0.58019600  0.22987900  1.0
  O  O33  1  0.25307800  0.89654600  0.09180400  1.0
  O  O34  1  0.23404100  0.44247000  0.58284500  1.0
  O  O35  1  0.04523900  0.60524300  0.81231700  1.0
  O  O36  1  0.52684000  0.30239400  0.11102000  1.0
  O  O37  1  0.08493200  0.25745200  0.90044400  1.0
  O  O38  1  0.31269200  0.10772400  0.52134000  1.0
  O  O39  1  0.10823400  0.51909000  0.31216000  1.0

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