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Mg3Sn

Traditional Materials TRA

MP-ID: mp-938875 · Space group: P6_3/mmc (#194)

Basic Information

Formula
Mg3Sn
MP-ID
mp-938875
Elements
2
Sites
24
Density
3.6016
g/cm³
Volume
530.10
ų
Cell a
10.9379
Å
Cell b
10.9380
Å
Cell c
5.1166
Å
α Angle
90.00
°
β Angle
90.00
°
γ Angle
120.01
°
Space Group
P6_3/mmc
Point Group
6/mmm
Crystal System
Hexagonal
Bravais Lattice
Hexagonal P
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
16.21 5.4690 34.8 (1,-2,1,0)
16.21 5.4690 34.8 (2,-1,-1,0)
16.21 5.4685 34.8 (1,1,-2,0)
23.81 3.7364 46.0 (1,-2,1,1)
23.81 3.7363 46.0 (2,-1,-1,-1)
23.81 3.7363 46.2 (2,-1,-1,1)
23.82 3.7363 46.2 (1,-2,1,-1)
23.82 3.7362 46.2 (1,1,-2,-1)
23.82 3.7361 46.0 (1,1,-2,1)
28.26 3.1576 40.1 (3,-3,0,0)
28.27 3.1573 40.1 (0,3,-3,0)
28.27 3.1573 40.1 (3,0,-3,0)
32.75 2.7345 30.0 (2,-4,2,0)
32.75 2.7345 30.0 (4,-2,-2,0)
32.75 2.7343 30.0 (2,2,-4,0)
35.08 2.5583 100.0 (0,0,0,2)
37.28 2.4117 63.4 (2,-4,2,1)
37.29 2.4117 63.4 (4,-2,-2,-1)
37.29 2.4117 63.4 (4,-2,-2,1)
37.29 2.4117 63.4 (2,-4,2,-1)
37.29 2.4115 63.4 (2,2,-4,-1)
37.29 2.4115 63.4 (2,2,-4,1)
38.86 2.3173 4.3 (1,-2,1,2)
38.86 2.3173 4.3 (2,-1,-1,-2)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-0.07828
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-2.30352
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0471
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-2.3035
eV/atom
Volume/atom
22.09
ų
c/a Ratio
0.4678

Electronic Properties

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

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
Yes
Total Mag. Moment
0.0000
μB
Mag. Ordering
Unknown
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
Mg · 0.750
Element Family
N/A
Solute Fraction
0.250
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar
Rating & Classification
Tier
A
Score
0.900
Family
Mg-based Alloy
Matrix Element
Mg · 0.750

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (3)

Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-938875
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of Mg3Sn were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-938875, 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_Mg3Sn
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   10.93789570
_cell_length_b   10.93794979
_cell_length_c   5.11656411
_cell_angle_alpha   90.00132372
_cell_angle_beta   90.00036823
_cell_angle_gamma   120.00565306
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   Mg3Sn
_chemical_formula_sum   'Mg18 Sn6'
_cell_volume   530.09537238
_cell_formula_units_Z   6
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  0.49989340  0.82991188  0.24964428  1.0
  Mg  Mg1  1  0.33002267  0.50013228  0.24964230  1.0
  Mg  Mg2  1  0.17008637  0.66994927  0.24964527  1.0
  Mg  Mg3  1  0.50010891  0.17008606  0.75035139  1.0
  Mg  Mg4  1  0.66997348  0.49986223  0.75034586  1.0
  Mg  Mg5  1  0.82991512  0.33005707  0.75035370  1.0
  Mg  Mg6  1  0.16656694  0.16323307  0.24965143  1.0
  Mg  Mg7  1  0.99667039  0.83346351  0.24965637  1.0
  Mg  Mg8  1  0.83676983  0.00329623  0.24964759  1.0
  Mg  Mg9  1  0.83343321  0.83676915  0.75034320  1.0
  Mg  Mg10  1  0.00332679  0.16653410  0.75034598  1.0
  Mg  Mg11  1  0.16323068  0.99670542  0.75035198  1.0
  Mg  Mg12  1  0.83324409  0.49656355  0.24969563  1.0
  Mg  Mg13  1  0.66333989  0.16679795  0.24970205  1.0
  Mg  Mg14  1  0.50343118  0.33663555  0.24968216  1.0
  Mg  Mg15  1  0.16675630  0.50344195  0.75031177  1.0
  Mg  Mg16  1  0.33666586  0.83320657  0.75030297  1.0
  Mg  Mg17  1  0.49656246  0.66335625  0.75032085  1.0
  Sn  Sn18  1  0.66666153  0.66668575  0.25011806  1.0
  Sn  Sn19  1  0.00002786  0.33333140  0.25016295  1.0
  Sn  Sn20  1  0.33330636  0.99997191  0.25017702  1.0
  Sn  Sn21  1  0.33333658  0.33330795  0.74989973  1.0
  Sn  Sn22  1  0.99997331  0.66667330  0.74984010  1.0
  Sn  Sn23  1  0.66669481  0.00002859  0.74980636  1.0
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