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CaLa(NbSe2)6

High-Entropy Materials HEA

MP-ID: mp-3297065 · Space group: P312 (#149)

Basic Information

Formula
CaLa(NbSe2)6
MP-ID
mp-3297065
Elements
4
Sites
20
Density
5.7818
g/cm³
Volume
483.63
ų
Cell a
6.0993
Å
Cell b
6.0993
Å
Cell c
15.0116
Å
α Angle
90.00
°
β Angle
90.00
°
γ Angle
120.00
°
Space Group
P312
Point Group
32
Crystal System
Trigonal
Bravais Lattice
Trigonal P
Stability
Yes
Packing Fraction
0.7400

X-ray Diffraction

Diffraction Pattern
X-axis: 2θ (°); Y-axis: relative intensity; CuKa ; λ=1.5406 Å
Diffraction Peaks (Top 24)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
5.89 15.0116 4.2 (0,0,0,1)
11.79 7.5058 66.9 (0,0,0,2)
16.78 5.2821 3.4 (1,0,-1,0)
17.80 4.9827 11.3 (1,0,-1,1)
20.56 4.3197 5.1 (1,0,-1,2)
24.50 3.6327 6.5 (1,0,-1,3)
29.19 3.0593 2.4 (1,0,-1,4)
29.29 3.0496 1.8 (2,-1,-1,0)
29.29 3.0496 3.6 (1,1,-2,0)
29.90 2.9886 18.5 (2,-1,-1,1)
29.90 2.9886 37.1 (1,1,-2,1)
31.67 2.8253 3.7 (2,-1,-1,2)
31.67 2.8253 7.3 (1,1,-2,2)
34.36 2.6102 3.0 (1,0,-1,5)
34.44 2.6041 16.5 (2,-1,-1,3)
34.48 2.6011 3.3 (2,0,-2,1)
38.02 2.3667 100.0 (2,-1,-1,4)
42.24 2.1395 31.5 (2,-1,-1,5)
45.76 1.9830 1.1 (2,0,-2,5)
45.85 1.9790 2.4 (3,-1,-2,1)
46.98 1.9343 15.5 (2,-1,-1,6)
48.52 1.8765 12.1 (0,0,0,8)
49.13 1.8543 1.4 (3,-1,-2,3)
51.93 1.7607 27.0 (3,0,-3,0)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-1.31651
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-19.16282
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0000
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-19.1628
eV/atom
Volume/atom
24.18
ų
c/a Ratio
2.4612

Electronic Properties

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

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
No
Total Mag. Moment
0.0001
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
Se · 0.600
Element Family
Metalloid-Nonmetal
Solute Fraction
0.400
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

High-Entropy Alloy Features

Composite Radar (normalized)
Element-Class Share
Mix Entropy ΔS/R
0.9673
HEA criterion (>1.0 = high entropy)
Mix Entropy ΔS
8.0418
J/mol·K
Ω Parameter
4.0243
Ω > 1.1 favors solid solution
Atomic Size Mismatch δr
19.133%
δr < 6.6% favors single-phase solid solution
Electronegativity Diff Δχ
0.5539
smaller = more stable mixing
VEC
4.150
valence electron concentration, affects phase stability
Mix Enthalpy ΔH_mix
2.471
kJ/mol; negative = exothermic mixing
Entropy Norm
0.6977
SS Former
0
Phase Tendency
IM

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (1)

Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-3297065
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of CaLa(NbSe2)6 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-3297065, 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_CaLa(NbSe2)6
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   6.09925741
_cell_length_b   6.09925685
_cell_length_c   15.01156944
_cell_angle_alpha   90.00000000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000000
_cell_angle_gamma   120.00000300
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   CaLa(NbSe2)6
_chemical_formula_sum   'Ca1 La1 Nb6 Se12'
_cell_volume   483.62707163
_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
  Ca  Ca0  1  0.66666700  0.33333300  0.75000000  1.0
  La  La1  1  0.33333300  0.66666700  0.25000000  1.0
  Nb  Nb2  1  0.33333300  0.66666700  0.99902349  1.0
  Nb  Nb3  1  0.00000000  0.00000000  0.99712290  1.0
  Nb  Nb4  1  0.66666700  0.33333300  0.99656165  1.0
  Nb  Nb5  1  0.33333300  0.66666700  0.50097651  1.0
  Nb  Nb6  1  0.00000000  0.00000000  0.50287710  1.0
  Nb  Nb7  1  0.66666700  0.33333300  0.50343835  1.0
  Se  Se8  1  0.67347951  0.66614507  0.39167942  1.0
  Se  Se9  1  0.66570064  0.67100142  0.61251800  1.0
  Se  Se10  1  0.00529979  0.67100142  0.88748200  1.0
  Se  Se11  1  0.66570064  0.99470021  0.88748200  1.0
  Se  Se12  1  0.67347951  0.00733444  0.10832058  1.0
  Se  Se13  1  0.33385493  0.00733444  0.39167942  1.0
  Se  Se14  1  0.00529979  0.33429936  0.61251800  1.0
  Se  Se15  1  0.32899858  0.99470021  0.61251800  1.0
  Se  Se16  1  0.99266556  0.66614507  0.10832058  1.0
  Se  Se17  1  0.32899858  0.33429936  0.88748200  1.0
  Se  Se18  1  0.99266556  0.32652049  0.39167942  1.0
  Se  Se19  1  0.33385493  0.32652049  0.10832058  1.0
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