Materials Data on Li3Au by Materials Project
Li3Au is alpha bismuth trifluoride structured and crystallizes in the cubic Fm-3m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. there are two inequivalent Li sites. In the first Li site, Li is bonded to four equivalent Li and four equivalent Au atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge, face, and corner-sharing LiLi4Au4 tetrahedra. All Li–Li bond lengths are 2.73 Å. All Li–Au bond lengths are 2.73 Å. In the second Li site, Li is bonded in a 6-coordinate geometry to eight equivalent Li and six equivalent Au atoms. All Li–Au bond lengths are 3.15 Å. Au is bonded in a distorted body-centered cubic geometry to fourteen Li atoms.