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Li3Nb4O12

High-Entropy Materials HEA Traditional Materials TRA

MP-ID: mp-706276 · Space group: R3 (#146)

Basic Information

Formula
Li3Nb4O12
MP-ID
mp-706276
Elements
3
Sites
19
Density
4.2864
g/cm³
Volume
226.41
ų
Cell a
9.8523
Å
Cell b
9.8523
Å
Cell c
9.8523
Å
α Angle
31.10
°
β Angle
31.10
°
γ Angle
31.10
°
Space Group
R3
Point Group
3
Crystal System
Trigonal
Bravais Lattice
Trigonal R
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 24)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
23.20 3.8339 100.0 (2,1,1)
32.12 2.7864 33.5 (3,3,2)
33.94 2.6413 21.3 (1,0,-1)
38.44 2.3421 2.4 (4,4,4)
39.15 2.3008 6.3 (3,2,1)
41.52 2.1751 10.3 (2,2,0)
47.43 1.9169 19.0 (4,2,2)
52.20 1.7524 16.7 (5,4,3)
52.20 1.7524 8.3 (4,3,5)
54.66 1.6791 10.5 (3,1,0)
54.66 1.6791 5.2 (1,0,3)
56.08 1.6398 6.5 (6,5,5)
59.59 1.5514 4.3 (4,3,1)
59.59 1.5514 8.5 (4,1,3)
60.73 1.5250 10.1 (2,-1,-1)
67.19 1.3932 5.5 (6,6,4)
70.05 1.3433 1.3 (7,7,6)
70.05 1.3433 2.6 (7,6,7)
71.43 1.3207 3.4 (2,0,-2)
74.21 1.2780 1.8 (6,3,3)
74.21 1.2780 1.8 (5,2,5)
76.25 1.2487 7.2 (3,2,-1)
77.45 1.2323 3.5 (7,5,4)
77.45 1.2323 1.8 (5,4,7)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-2.78133
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-8.33436
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0675
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-7.9005
eV/atom
Volume/atom
11.92
ų
c/a Ratio
1.0000

Electronic Properties

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

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
Yes
Total Mag. Moment
1.0020
μB
Mag. Ordering
FM
Mag. Sites
3
Magnetization/Volume
0.004430
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
O · 0.632
Element Family
Metalloid-Nonmetal
Solute Fraction
0.368
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

High-Entropy Alloy Features

Composite Radar (normalized)
Element-Class Share
Mix Entropy ΔS/R
0.9097
HEA criterion (>1.0 = high entropy)
Mix Entropy ΔS
7.5633
J/mol·K
Ω Parameter
5.0740
Ω > 1.1 favors solid solution
Atomic Size Mismatch δr
46.164%
δr < 6.6% favors single-phase solid solution
Electronegativity Diff Δχ
1.0327
smaller = more stable mixing
VEC
3.737
valence electron concentration, affects phase stability
Mix Enthalpy ΔH_mix
-1.021
kJ/mol; negative = exothermic mixing
Entropy Norm
0.8281
SS Former
0
Phase Tendency
IM

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar
Rating & Classification
Tier
B
Score
0.554
Family
O-rich Multi-Component
Matrix Element
O · 0.632

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (2)

Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-706276
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of Li3Nb4O12 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-706276, 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_Li3Nb4O12
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   9.85224689
_cell_length_b   9.85224689
_cell_length_c   9.85224626
_cell_angle_alpha   31.10181684
_cell_angle_beta   31.10181684
_cell_angle_gamma   31.10181734
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   Li3Nb4O12
_chemical_formula_sum   'Li3 Nb4 O12'
_cell_volume   226.41049057
_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
  Li  Li0  1  0.14108800  0.14108800  0.14108800  1.0
  Li  Li1  1  0.89117800  0.89117800  0.89117800  1.0
  Li  Li2  1  0.36127900  0.36127900  0.36127900  1.0
  Nb  Nb3  1  0.00781800  0.00781800  0.00781800  1.0
  Nb  Nb4  1  0.50325100  0.50325100  0.50325100  1.0
  Nb  Nb5  1  0.75497800  0.75497800  0.75497800  1.0
  Nb  Nb6  1  0.25188000  0.25188000  0.25188000  1.0
  O  O7  1  0.87666100  0.24723100  0.49028200  1.0
  O  O8  1  0.00037600  0.37544500  0.74792600  1.0
  O  O9  1  0.74792600  0.00037600  0.37544500  1.0
  O  O10  1  0.37544500  0.74792600  0.00037600  1.0
  O  O11  1  0.74407900  0.50369600  0.12357200  1.0
  O  O12  1  0.50369600  0.12357200  0.74407900  1.0
  O  O13  1  0.49028200  0.87666100  0.24723100  1.0
  O  O14  1  0.24723100  0.49028200  0.87666100  1.0
  O  O15  1  0.62814400  0.19555100  0.04621500  1.0
  O  O16  1  0.19555100  0.04621500  0.62814400  1.0
  O  O17  1  0.04621500  0.62814400  0.19555100  1.0
  O  O18  1  0.12357200  0.74407900  0.50369600  1.0
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