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ErCr2Si2C

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MP-ID: mp-1206309 · Space group: P4/mmm (#123)

Basic Information

Formula
ErCr2Si2C
MP-ID
mp-1206309
Elements
4
Sites
6
Density
6.9035
g/cm³
Volume
81.65
ų
Cell a
3.9599
Å
Cell b
3.9599
Å
Cell c
5.2068
Å
α Angle
90.00
°
β Angle
90.00
°
γ Angle
90.00
°
Space Group
P4/mmm
Point Group
4/mmm
Crystal System
Tetragonal
Bravais Lattice
Tetragonal P
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
17.03 5.2068 4.9 (0,0,1)
22.45 3.9599 32.3 (1,0,0)
28.31 3.1519 56.9 (1,0,1)
31.96 2.8001 15.3 (1,1,0)
34.45 2.6034 20.9 (0,0,2)
36.43 2.4661 100.0 (1,1,1)
41.51 2.1754 50.5 (1,0,2)
45.83 1.9800 40.4 (2,0,0)
49.24 1.8507 2.2 (2,0,1)
51.61 1.7709 7.2 (2,1,0)
54.75 1.6766 19.3 (2,1,1)
58.02 1.5896 11.4 (1,0,3)
58.57 1.5760 16.8 (2,0,2)
63.01 1.4752 15.5 (1,1,3)
63.54 1.4643 28.1 (2,1,2)
66.82 1.4000 12.5 (2,2,0)
71.47 1.3200 1.3 (3,0,0)
72.63 1.3017 4.6 (0,0,4)
74.10 1.2795 4.0 (3,0,1)
76.00 1.2522 2.9 (3,1,0)
76.92 1.2396 10.1 (2,1,3)
77.13 1.2366 2.4 (1,0,4)
77.40 1.2330 7.1 (2,2,2)
78.57 1.2175 20.1 (3,1,1)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-0.45349
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-7.77940
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0000
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-7.7794
eV/atom
Volume/atom
13.61
ų
c/a Ratio
1.3149

Electronic Properties

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

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
Yes
Total Mag. Moment
1.2646
μB
Mag. Ordering
FiM
Mag. Sites
3
Magnetization/Volume
0.015490
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
Cr · 0.333
Element Family
3d-TM
Solute Fraction
0.667
Interstitial Fraction
0.500

High-Entropy Alloy Features

Composite Radar (normalized)
Element-Class Share
Mix Entropy ΔS/R
1.3297
HEA criterion (>1.0 = high entropy)
Mix Entropy ΔS
11.0548
J/mol·K
Ω Parameter
0.7335
Ω > 1.1 favors solid solution
Atomic Size Mismatch δr
23.201%
δr < 6.6% favors single-phase solid solution
Electronegativity Diff Δχ
0.3944
smaller = more stable mixing
VEC
6.000
valence electron concentration, affects phase stability
Mix Enthalpy ΔH_mix
-33.556
kJ/mol; negative = exothermic mixing
Entropy Norm
0.9591
SS Former
0
Phase Tendency
AM

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Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-1206309
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of ErCr2Si2C were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-1206309, 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_ErCr2Si2C
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   3.95990100
_cell_length_b   3.95990100
_cell_length_c   5.20675400
_cell_angle_alpha   90.00000000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000000
_cell_angle_gamma   90.00000000
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   ErCr2Si2C
_chemical_formula_sum   'Er1 Cr2 Si2 C1'
_cell_volume   81.64615107
_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
  Er  Er0  1  0.00000000  0.00000000  0.50000000  1.0
  Cr  Cr1  1  0.00000000  0.50000000  0.00000000  1.0
  Cr  Cr2  1  0.50000000  0.00000000  0.00000000  1.0
  Si  Si3  1  0.50000000  0.50000000  0.27037800  1.0
  Si  Si4  1  0.50000000  0.50000000  0.72962200  1.0
  C  C5  1  0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000000  1.0
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