Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: AB2C2_hP10_194_a_bc_f

  • M. J. Mehl, D. Hicks, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 1, Comp. Mat. Sci. 136, S1-S828 (2017). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.01.017)
  • D. Hicks, M. J. Mehl, E. Gossett, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 2, Comp. Mat. Sci. 161, S1-S1011 (2019). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.10.043)
  • D. Hicks, M.J. Mehl, M. Esters, C. Oses, O. Levy, G.L.W. Hart, C. Toher, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 3, Comp. Mat. Sci. 199, 110450 (2021). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110450)

Na0.74CoO2 Structure : AB2C2_hP10_194_a_bc_f

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Prototype : CoNa0.74O2
AFLOW prototype label : AB2C2_hP10_194_a_bc_f
Strukturbericht designation : None
Pearson symbol : hP10
Space group number : 194
Space group symbol : $P6_{3}/mmc$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=AB2C2_hP10_194_a_bc_f
--params=
$a$,$c/a$,$z_{4}$


  • Na0.74CoO2 is a high figure–of–merit thermoelectric (Sk, 2019). The sodium sites are only partial filled, with the Na–I ($2b$) site having 21% occupancy while the Na–II ($2c$) site is at 51%.

Hexagonal primitive vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccc} \mathbf{a}_1 & = & \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} - \frac{\sqrt3}2 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} \\ \mathbf{a}_2 & = & \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac{\sqrt3}2 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} \\ \mathbf{a}_3 & = & c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} \\ \end{array} \]

Basis vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & = & 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & 0 \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + 0 \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + 0 \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(2a\right) & \text{Co} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & = & \frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{2}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(2a\right) & \text{Co} \\ \mathbf{B}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(2b\right) & \text{Na I} \\ \mathbf{B}_{4} & = & \frac{3}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{3}{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(2b\right) & \text{Na I} \\ \mathbf{B}_{5} & = & \frac{1}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + \frac{2}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \frac{1}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{2}a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac{1}{2\sqrt{3}}a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac{1}{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(2c\right) & \text{Na II} \\ \mathbf{B}_{6} & = & \frac{2}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + \frac{1}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \frac{3}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{2}a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- \frac{1}{2\sqrt{3}}a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac{3}{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(2c\right) & \text{Na II} \\ \mathbf{B}_{7} & = & \frac{1}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + \frac{2}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + z_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{2}a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac{1}{2\sqrt{3}}a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + z_{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(4f\right) & \text{O} \\ \mathbf{B}_{8} & = & \frac{2}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + \frac{1}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \left(\frac{1}{2} +z_{4}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{2}a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- \frac{1}{2\sqrt{3}}a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \left(\frac{1}{2} +z_{4}\right)c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(4f\right) & \text{O} \\ \mathbf{B}_{9} & = & \frac{2}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + \frac{1}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}-z_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{2}a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- \frac{1}{2\sqrt{3}}a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}-z_{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(4f\right) & \text{O} \\ \mathbf{B}_{10} & = & \frac{1}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + \frac{2}{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \left(\frac{1}{2} - z_{4}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{2}a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac{1}{2\sqrt{3}}a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \left(\frac{1}{2}-z_{4}\right)c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(4f\right) & \text{O} \\ \end{array} \]

References

  • R. J. Balsys and R. L. Davis, Refinement of the structure of Na0.74CoO2 using neutron powder diffraction, Solid State Ion. 93, 279–282 (1997), doi:10.1016/S0167-2738(96)00557-7.

Found in

  • S. Sk, J. Pati, R. S. Dhaka, and S. K. Pandey, Exploring the possibility of enhancing the figure–of–merit ($> 2$) of Na0.74CoO2: A combined experimental and theoretical study, Eur. Phys. J. B 93, 155 (2020), doi:10.1140/epjb/e2020-10227-x.

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