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Li2Mg

Traditional Materials TRA

MP-ID: mp-976885 · Space group: R32 (#155)

Basic Information

Formula
Li2Mg
MP-ID
mp-976885
Elements
2
Sites
6
Density
1.0273
g/cm³
Volume
123.46
ų
Cell a
5.9275
Å
Cell b
5.9275
Å
Cell c
5.9275
Å
α Angle
53.10
°
β Angle
53.10
°
γ Angle
53.10
°
Space Group
R32
Point Group
32
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
17.47 5.0769 50.7 (1,1,1)
20.21 4.3939 26.7 (1,0,0)
22.62 3.9306 13.8 (1,0,1)
22.62 3.9306 6.9 (1,1,0)
30.51 2.9303 8.8 (2,1,1)
33.83 2.6495 42.5 (1,0,-1)
35.36 2.5385 25.1 (2,2,2)
35.37 2.5379 6.7 (2,2,1)
38.32 2.3489 100.0 (2,1,0)
39.73 2.2689 2.9 (1,-1,1)
39.73 2.2689 1.4 (1,1,-1)
41.09 2.1970 2.8 (2,0,0)
41.09 2.1970 1.4 (0,0,2)
46.17 1.9660 1.7 (3,2,2)
46.19 1.9653 1.8 (2,0,2)
49.74 1.8330 27.4 (3,2,1)
49.75 1.8328 1.6 (3,1,1)
52.00 1.7585 2.1 (3,3,2)
53.15 1.7234 1.2 (2,-1,0)
53.15 1.7234 1.2 (2,0,-1)
53.15 1.7234 1.2 (1,0,-2)
54.20 1.6923 2.3 (3,3,3)
54.24 1.6912 1.2 (2,-1,1)
54.24 1.6912 2.3 (2,1,-1)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-0.02718
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-3.00809
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0076
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-3.0081
eV/atom
Volume/atom
20.58
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
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
Li · 0.667
Element Family
N/A
Solute Fraction
0.333
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar
Rating & Classification
Tier
A
Score
0.698
Family
Binary Alloy
Matrix Element
Li · 0.667

Related Tasks

Related computation task IDs (2)

Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-976885
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of Li2Mg were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-976885, 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_Li2Mg
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   5.92747255
_cell_length_b   5.92747255
_cell_length_c   5.92747196
_cell_angle_alpha   53.10053943
_cell_angle_beta   53.10053943
_cell_angle_gamma   53.10054862
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   Li2Mg
_chemical_formula_sum   'Li4 Mg2'
_cell_volume   123.45626207
_cell_formula_units_Z   2
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  0.33198635  0.00000000  0.66801365  1.0
  Li  Li1  1  0.66801365  0.33198635  -0.00000000  1.0
  Li  Li2  1  -0.00000000  0.66801365  0.33198635  1.0
  Li  Li3  1  0.50000000  0.50000000  0.50000000  1.0
  Mg  Mg4  1  0.83287199  0.83287199  0.83287199  1.0
  Mg  Mg5  1  0.16712801  0.16712801  0.16712801  1.0
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