DOI: 10.17188/1698429
title: Materials Data on LiMg30BO32 by Materials Project

description: LiMg30BO32 is Molybdenum Carbide MAX Phase-derived structured and crystallizes in the tetragonal P4/mmm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Li1+ is bonded in a square co-planar geometry to four O2- atoms. All Li–O bond lengths are 2.10 Å. There are eight inequivalent Mg2+ sites. In the first Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing MgO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. There are a spread of Mg–O bond distances ranging from 2.09–2.17 Å. In the second Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing MgO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. There are a spread of Mg–O bond distances ranging from 2.05–2.15 Å. In the third Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing MgO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. There are two shorter (2.10 Å) and four longer (2.14 Å) Mg–O bond lengths. In the fourth Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing MgO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. There are two shorter (2.11 Å) and four longer (2.12 Å) Mg–O bond lengths. In the fifth Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing MgO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 2–34°. There are a spread of Mg–O bond distances ranging from 2.07–2.27 Å. In the sixth Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing MgO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–2°. There are a spread of Mg–O bond distances ranging from 2.10–2.16 Å. In the seventh Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing MgO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–2°. There are four shorter (2.10 Å) and two longer (2.17 Å) Mg–O bond lengths. In the eighth Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing MgO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–5°. There are a spread of Mg–O bond distances ranging from 2.10–2.15 Å. B3+ is bonded in a distorted linear geometry to six O2- atoms. There is two shorter (1.40 Å) and four longer (2.22 Å) B–O bond length. There are twelve inequivalent O2- sites. In the first O2- site, O2- is bonded to one Li1+ and five Mg2+ atoms to form OLiMg5 octahedra that share corners with six OLiMg5 octahedra and edges with ten OMg6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–1°. There are two shorter (2.13 Å) and one longer (2.17 Å) O–Mg bond lengths. In the second O2- site, O2- is bonded to five Mg2+ and one B3+ atom to form OMg5B octahedra that share corners with six OLiMg5 octahedra and edges with ten OMg5B octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–3°. In the third O2- site, O2- is bonded to six Mg2+ atoms to form OMg6 octahedra that share corners with six OLiMg5 octahedra and edges with twelve OMg6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–1°. Both O–Mg bond lengths are 2.10 Å. In the fourth O2- site, O2- is bonded to six Mg2+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing OMg6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–3°. In the fifth O2- site, O2- is bonded to six Mg2+ atoms to form OMg6 octahedra that share corners with six OLiMg5 octahedra and edges with twelve OMg6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–1°. There are two shorter (2.10 Å) and two longer (2.17 Å) O–Mg bond lengths. In the sixth O2- site, O2- is bonded to six Mg2+ atoms to form OMg6 octahedra that share corners with six equivalent OMg6 octahedra and edges with eleven OLiMg5 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 1–4°. In the seventh O2- site, O2- is bonded in a distorted single-bond geometry to four equivalent Mg2+ and one B3+ atom. In the eighth O2- site, O2- is bonded to six Mg2+ atoms to form OMg6 octahedra that share corners with four OMg6 octahedra and edges with twelve OMg5B octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. In the ninth O2- site, O2- is bonded to six Mg2+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing OMg6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. In the tenth O2- site, O2- is bonded to one Li1+ and five Mg2+ atoms to form OLiMg5 octahedra that share corners with six OMg5B octahedra and edges with ten OLiMg5 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–1°. In the eleventh O2- site, O2- is bonded to one Li1+ and five Mg2+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing OLiMg5 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–1°. There are two shorter (2.10 Å) and two longer (2.13 Å) O–Mg bond lengths. In the twelfth O2- site, O2- is bonded to six Mg2+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing OMg6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 0–1°. The O–Mg bond length is 2.13 Å.