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MgCN2

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MP-ID: mp-15702 · Space group: I-42d (#122)

Basic Information

Formula
MgCN2
MP-ID
mp-15702
Elements
3
Sites
8
Density
3.4290
g/cm³
Volume
62.30
ų
Cell a
4.4302
Å
Cell b
4.4302
Å
Cell c
4.4302
Å
α Angle
119.09
°
β Angle
119.09
°
γ Angle
91.59
°
Space Group
I-42d
Point Group
-42m
Crystal System
Tetragonal
Bravais Lattice
Tetragonal I
Stability
No
Packing Fraction
0.7400

X-ray Diffraction

Diffraction Pattern
X-axis: 2θ (°); Y-axis: relative intensity; CuKa ; λ=1.5406 Å
Diffraction Peaks (Top 15)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
40.16 2.2456 11.5 (1,-1,1)
40.75 2.2142 100.0 (1,1,0)
47.61 1.9101 36.3 (1,0,1)
48.64 1.8719 12.4 (2,1,-1)
50.23 1.8163 2.2 (2,0,0)
58.09 1.5879 16.0 (0,0,2)
63.99 1.4549 7.1 (2,-1,1)
64.85 1.4378 3.8 (2,1,0)
65.75 1.4202 1.9 (1,-1,2)
73.37 1.2904 21.8 (2,0,1)
74.58 1.2725 19.2 (3,1,-1)
78.30 1.2211 1.5 (1,0,2)
80.65 1.1913 2.4 (3,2,-2)
86.72 1.1228 3.6 (2,-2,2)
88.27 1.1071 4.5 (2,2,0)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-0.24529
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-8.33880
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.5309
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-6.9612
eV/atom
Volume/atom
7.79
ų
c/a Ratio
1.0000

Electronic Properties

Metallic
Non-metal
Band Gap
3.846
eV
Direct Gap
Yes
CBM
N/A
eV

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
No
Total Mag. Moment
0.0015
μB
Mag. Ordering
NM
Mag. Sites
0
Magnetization/Volume
0.000020
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

KVRH
236.074
GPa
GVRH
138.965
GPa
Young's Modulus E
348.511
GPa
Poisson Ratio ν
0.254
Pugh Ratio K/G
1.699
Vickers Hardness Est.
16.291
GPa
Ductility
Ductile
Anisotropy
1.595
Lame λ
143.431
GPa

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
N · 0.500
Element Family
Metalloid-Nonmetal
Solute Fraction
0.500
Interstitial Fraction
0.750

Elasticity Features

Elastic Modulus Comparison (GPa)
Elastic Features
Elastic Anisotropy AU
1.5950
Homogeneous Poisson ν
0.2540
Debye Temperature
1,061.7
K
Sound Velocity
7,070.8
m/s
Homogeneity
0.2540

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (2)

Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-15702
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of MgCN2 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-15702, 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_MgCN2
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   4.43017500
_cell_length_b   4.43017500
_cell_length_c   4.43017500
_cell_angle_alpha   119.08709167
_cell_angle_beta   119.08709167
_cell_angle_gamma   91.58861289
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   MgCN2
_chemical_formula_sum   'Mg2 C2 N4'
_cell_volume   62.30440090
_cell_formula_units_Z   2
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  0.75000000  0.25000000  0.50000000  1.0
  Mg  Mg1  1  0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000000  1.0
  C  C2  1  0.50000000  0.50000000  0.00000000  1.0
  C  C3  1  0.25000000  0.75000000  0.50000000  1.0
  N  N4  1  0.52214000  0.62500000  0.39714000  1.0
  N  N5  1  0.87500000  0.47786000  0.10286000  1.0
  N  N6  1  0.22786000  0.12500000  0.60286000  1.0
  N  N7  1  0.37500000  0.77214000  0.89714000  1.0
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