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Ta4CrTcB4

High-Entropy Materials HEA

MP-ID: mp-3344638 · Space group: P4/m (#83)

Basic Information

Formula
Ta4CrTcB4
MP-ID
mp-3344638
Elements
4
Sites
10
Density
13.1542
g/cm³
Volume
115.76
ų
Cell a
5.9600
Å
Cell b
5.9600
Å
Cell c
3.2590
Å
α Angle
90.00
°
β Angle
90.00
°
γ Angle
90.00
°
Space Group
P4/m
Point Group
4/m
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
14.86 5.9600 1.2 (1,0,0)
27.37 3.2590 43.8 (0,0,1)
29.99 2.9800 20.3 (2,0,0)
31.28 2.8594 1.8 (1,0,1)
33.62 2.6654 90.3 (2,1,0)
34.80 2.5781 25.4 (1,1,1)
41.04 2.1992 80.3 (2,0,1)
42.92 2.1072 17.9 (2,2,0)
43.88 2.0632 100.0 (2,1,1)
48.29 1.8847 30.2 (3,1,0)
51.66 1.7695 1.8 (2,2,1)
55.60 1.6530 2.0 (3,2,0)
56.40 1.6315 4.0 (3,1,1)
56.47 1.6295 17.4 (0,0,2)
63.06 1.4742 2.2 (3,2,1)
64.46 1.4455 23.4 (4,1,0)
65.26 1.4297 4.9 (2,0,2)
66.57 1.4048 7.7 (3,3,0)
67.35 1.3903 25.2 (2,1,2)
69.35 1.3551 3.8 (4,0,1)
70.69 1.3327 2.7 (4,2,0)
71.38 1.3214 34.0 (4,1,1)
73.40 1.2900 26.8 (3,3,1)
73.46 1.2890 7.1 (2,2,2)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-0.75416
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-27.23324
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0000
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-27.2332
eV/atom
Volume/atom
11.58
ų
c/a Ratio
0.5468

Electronic Properties

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

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
No
Total Mag. Moment
0.0114
μB
Mag. Ordering
NM
Mag. Sites
0
Magnetization/Volume
0.000100
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
Ta · 0.400
Element Family
5d-TM
Solute Fraction
0.600
Interstitial Fraction
0.400

High-Entropy Alloy Features

Composite Radar (normalized)
Element-Class Share
Mix Entropy ΔS/R
1.1936
HEA criterion (>1.0 = high entropy)
Mix Entropy ΔS
9.9232
J/mol·K
Ω Parameter
1.1972
Ω > 1.1 favors solid solution
Atomic Size Mismatch δr
21.265%
δr < 6.6% favors single-phase solid solution
Electronegativity Diff Δχ
0.2474
smaller = more stable mixing
VEC
4.300
valence electron concentration, affects phase stability
Mix Enthalpy ΔH_mix
-22.517
kJ/mol; negative = exothermic mixing
Entropy Norm
0.8610
SS Former
0
Phase Tendency
AM

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (1)

Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-3344638
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of Ta4CrTcB4 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-3344638, 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_Ta4CrTcB4
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   5.95995121
_cell_length_b   5.95995121
_cell_length_c   3.25900296
_cell_angle_alpha   90.00000000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000000
_cell_angle_gamma   90.00000000
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   Ta4CrTcB4
_chemical_formula_sum   'Ta4 Cr1 Tc1 B4'
_cell_volume   115.76310446
_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
  Ta  Ta0  1  0.68261869  0.17430472  0.50000000  1.0
  Ta  Ta1  1  0.31738131  0.82569528  0.50000000  1.0
  Ta  Ta2  1  0.17430472  0.31738131  0.50000000  1.0
  Ta  Ta3  1  0.82569528  0.68261869  0.50000000  1.0
  Cr  Cr4  1  0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000000  1.0
  Tc  Tc5  1  0.50000000  0.50000000  0.00000000  1.0
  B  B6  1  0.11042215  0.61225983  0.00000000  1.0
  B  B7  1  0.88957785  0.38774017  0.00000000  1.0
  B  B8  1  0.61225983  0.88957785  0.00000000  1.0
  B  B9  1  0.38774017  0.11042215  0.00000000  1.0
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