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Fe3C

Traditional Materials TRA

MP-ID: mp-1182630 · Space group: Pmmn (#59)

Basic Information

Formula
Fe3C
MP-ID
mp-1182630
Elements
2
Sites
16
Density
7.1909
g/cm³
Volume
165.85
ų
Cell a
3.0490
Å
Cell b
5.0728
Å
Cell c
10.7226
Å
α Angle
90.00
°
β Angle
90.00
°
γ Angle
90.00
°
Space Group
Pmmn
Point Group
mmm
Crystal System
Orthorhombic
Bravais Lattice
Orthorhombic 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 22)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
33.43 2.6807 4.5 (0,0,4)
38.82 2.3197 100.0 (1,0,3)
39.30 2.2928 2.3 (0,2,2)
43.76 2.0685 67.1 (0,2,3)
46.58 1.9499 69.5 (1,2,0)
47.39 1.9184 3.7 (1,2,1)
51.11 1.7871 24.6 (0,0,6)
52.14 1.7541 2.2 (1,0,5)
56.17 1.6376 1.8 (0,2,5)
58.54 1.5769 2.3 (1,2,4)
60.75 1.5245 15.3 (2,0,0)
64.60 1.4427 1.8 (1,2,5)
68.56 1.3688 1.1 (1,0,7)
71.63 1.3175 30.3 (1,2,6)
74.87 1.2682 6.2 (0,4,0)
75.49 1.2594 1.4 (0,4,1)
77.83 1.2272 21.3 (2,2,3)
83.32 1.1598 10.3 (2,0,6)
84.74 1.1440 1.7 (1,4,2)
87.71 1.1128 13.6 (1,4,3)
88.01 1.1097 6.4 (1,0,9)
89.86 1.0916 1.3 (0,4,5)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
0.27756
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-8.38270
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.2776
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-8.3827
eV/atom
Volume/atom
10.37
ų
c/a Ratio
-

Electronic Properties

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

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
Yes
Total Mag. Moment
22.4773
μB
Mag. Ordering
FM
Mag. Sites
6
Magnetization/Volume
0.135530
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
Fe · 0.750
Element Family
N/A
Solute Fraction
0.250
Interstitial Fraction
0.250

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar
Rating & Classification
Tier
A
Score
0.776
Family
Steel
Matrix Element
Fe · 0.750

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (1)

Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-1182630
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of Fe3C were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-1182630, 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_Fe3C
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   3.04901100
_cell_length_b   5.07274900
_cell_length_c   10.72263700
_cell_angle_alpha   90.00000000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000000
_cell_angle_gamma   90.00000000
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   Fe3C
_chemical_formula_sum   'Fe12 C4'
_cell_volume   165.84560574
_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
  Fe  Fe0  1  0.25262200  0.84963300  0.00000000  1.0
  Fe  Fe1  1  0.24737800  0.34963300  0.00000000  1.0
  Fe  Fe2  1  0.74737800  0.15036700  0.50000000  1.0
  Fe  Fe3  1  0.75262200  0.65036700  0.50000000  1.0
  Fe  Fe4  1  0.25028500  0.88733700  0.32278600  1.0
  Fe  Fe5  1  0.24971500  0.38733700  0.67721400  1.0
  Fe  Fe6  1  0.74971500  0.11266300  0.82278600  1.0
  Fe  Fe7  1  0.75028500  0.61266300  0.17721400  1.0
  Fe  Fe8  1  0.74971500  0.11266300  0.17721400  1.0
  Fe  Fe9  1  0.75028500  0.61266300  0.82278600  1.0
  Fe  Fe10  1  0.25028500  0.88733700  0.67721400  1.0
  Fe  Fe11  1  0.24971500  0.38733700  0.32278600  1.0
  C  C12  1  0.75011900  0.09175300  0.00000000  1.0
  C  C13  1  0.74988100  0.59175300  0.00000000  1.0
  C  C14  1  0.24988100  0.90824700  0.50000000  1.0
  C  C15  1  0.25011900  0.40824700  0.50000000  1.0
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