Ta14(CuS8)3

High-Entropy Materials HEA Traditional Materials TRA

MP-ID: mp-676854 · Space group: P1 (#1)

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Basic Information

Formula

Ta14(CuS8)3

MP-ID

mp-676854

Elements

Sites

Density

7.8663

g/cm³

Volume

737.46

Å³

Cell a

6.6684

Cell b

8.8008

Cell c

12.9738

α Angle

92.28

β Angle

98.01

γ Angle

101.34

Space Group

Point Group

Crystal System

Triclinic

Bravais Lattice

Triclinic P

Stability

Yes

Packing Fraction

0.5240

X-ray Diffraction

Diffraction Pattern

Target / Radiation

X-axis: 2θ (°); Y-axis: relative intensity; CuKa ; λ=1.5406 Å

Diffraction Peaks (Top 24)

2θ	d (Å)	I	hkl
6.90	12.8163	7.8	(0,0,1)
10.28	8.6082	2.2	(0,1,0)
11.98	7.3862	3.9	(0,1,-1)
12.78	6.9277	1.6	(0,1,1)
13.70	6.4639	1.5	(1,0,0)
13.82	6.4082	100.0	(0,0,2)
15.37	5.7656	2.6	(1,-1,0)
16.26	5.4514	2.1	(1,0,1)
16.30	5.4397	4.6	(1,-1,-1)
17.41	5.0935	3.5	(1,-1,1)
17.82	4.9780	1.3	(0,1,2)
17.97	4.9369	1.9	(1,0,-2)
19.79	4.4863	1.8	(1,-1,-2)
20.97	4.2354	1.3	(1,1,1)
21.62	4.1106	1.2	(1,-1,2)
22.59	3.9367	1.6	(0,1,-3)
23.23	3.8296	1.7	(1,-2,-1)
23.61	3.7681	1.1	(1,-2,1)
24.83	3.5863	1.6	(1,-1,-3)
26.69	3.3406	1.0	(1,0,3)
27.05	3.2969	1.9	(1,-1,3)
27.84	3.2041	24.0	(0,0,4)
30.26	2.9534	1.1	(1,-2,-3)
31.02	2.8828	30.8	(2,-2,0)

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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom

-1.30115

eV/atom

Energy/atom

-8.07510

eV/atom

Energy above Hull

0.0000

eV/atom

Uncorrected Energy

-23.2283

eV/atom

Volume/atom

17.99

Å³

c/a Ratio

Electronic Properties

Metallic

Metal

Band Gap

Direct Gap

CBM

N/A

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic

Total Mag. Moment

0.0000

μB

Mag. Ordering

Mag. Sites

Magnetization/Volume

0.000000

μB/Å³

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)

Composition Info

Major / Matrix Element

S · 0.585

Element Family

Metalloid-Nonmetal

Solute Fraction

0.415

Interstitial Fraction

0.000

High-Entropy Alloy Features

Composite Radar (normalized)

Element-Class Share

Mix Entropy ΔS/R

0.8717

HEA criterion (>1.0 = high entropy)

Mix Entropy ΔS

7.2475

J/mol·K

Ω Parameter

0.3289

Ω > 1.1 favors solid solution

Atomic Size Mismatch δr

16.827%

δr < 6.6% favors single-phase solid solution

Electronegativity Diff Δχ

0.5069

smaller = more stable mixing

VEC

6.024

valence electron concentration, affects phase stability

Mix Enthalpy ΔH_mix

-31.952

kJ/mol; negative = exothermic mixing

Entropy Norm

0.7935

SS Former

Phase Tendency

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar

Rating & Classification

Tier

Score

0.595

Family

S-rich Multi-Component

Matrix Element

S · 0.585

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (3)

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Citation & References

Materials Project Page

https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-676854

Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of Ta14(CuS8)3 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-676854, 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.}
}

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Raw CIF Data

# generated using pymatgen
data_Ta14(CuS8)3
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   6.66841456
_cell_length_b   8.80076852
_cell_length_c   12.97376360
_cell_angle_alpha   92.27565029
_cell_angle_beta   98.01424200
_cell_angle_gamma   101.34467718
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   Ta14(CuS8)3
_chemical_formula_sum   'Ta14 Cu3 S24'
_cell_volume   737.45689653
_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
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  Ta  Ta0  1  0.05872635  0.02231338  0.24362760  1.0
  Ta  Ta1  1  0.40742791  0.36270317  0.24582652  1.0
  Ta  Ta2  1  0.56927207  0.02811946  0.24234000  1.0
  Ta  Ta3  1  0.85513760  0.35298647  0.00066872  1.0
  Ta  Ta4  1  0.89769976  0.36297747  0.24935246  1.0
  Ta  Ta5  1  0.72722840  0.70007452  0.24739766  1.0
  Ta  Ta6  1  0.76606798  0.30551997  0.75040868  1.0
  Ta  Ta7  1  0.23226526  0.69346963  0.24994031  1.0
  Ta  Ta8  1  0.27352368  0.30101571  0.75247166  1.0
  Ta  Ta9  1  0.09934638  0.63708839  0.75107614  1.0
  Ta  Ta10  1  0.14530826  0.64710666  0.00009117  1.0
  Ta  Ta11  1  0.43369721  0.97344327  0.75758648  1.0
  Ta  Ta12  1  0.59535358  0.63654025  0.75418367  1.0
  Ta  Ta13  1  0.93825656  0.97611002  0.75640323  1.0
  Cu  Cu14  1  0.79536407  0.71862153  0.46322172  1.0
  Cu  Cu15  1  0.20330368  0.28520443  0.53538823  1.0
  Cu  Cu16  1  0.37570594  0.94628917  0.53698522  1.0
  S  S17  1  0.17028164  0.06487407  0.62946821  1.0
  S  S18  1  0.25110974  0.09685604  0.87694523  1.0
  S  S19  1  0.51599204  0.40691811  0.62887915  1.0
  S  S20  1  0.68184853  0.07093055  0.63273625  1.0
  S  S21  1  0.58341787  0.42914790  0.87653760  1.0
  S  S22  1  0.75157698  0.10124696  0.87933927  1.0
  S  S23  1  0.59079308  0.24052915  0.11956077  1.0
  S  S24  1  0.65740158  0.26095195  0.36745578  1.0
  S  S25  1  0.84103950  0.73943158  0.63439731  1.0
  S  S26  1  0.00557489  0.40490222  0.62932386  1.0
  S  S27  1  0.91157611  0.76041560  0.87578894  1.0
  S  S28  1  0.09096128  0.42296418  0.87440368  1.0
  S  S29  1  0.90859802  0.57711722  0.12557378  1.0
  S  S30  1  0.08828644  0.24042462  0.12493881  1.0
  S  S31  1  0.99312327  0.59529417  0.37130625  1.0
  S  S32  1  0.15840513  0.26039884  0.36483282  1.0
  S  S33  1  0.34098316  0.73246797  0.63188037  1.0
  S  S34  1  0.40910120  0.75960823  0.87919574  1.0
  S  S35  1  0.24837273  0.89842637  0.12174155  1.0
  S  S36  1  0.41604266  0.57094805  0.12391663  1.0
  S  S37  1  0.32497419  0.93186248  0.36556489  1.0
  S  S38  1  0.48408082  0.59232555  0.37097365  1.0
  S  S39  1  0.74868286  0.90270880  0.12182927  1.0
  S  S40  1  0.82442661  0.93780087  0.36963972  1.0

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