Materials Data on Ca4Al6O13 by Materials Project
Ca4Al6O13 crystallizes in the cubic I-43m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Ca2+ is bonded in a 4-coordinate geometry to four O2- atoms. There are one shorter (2.37 Å) and three longer (2.47 Å) Ca–O bond lengths. Al3+ is bonded to four equivalent O2- atoms to form corner-sharing AlO4 tetrahedra. All Al–O bond lengths are 1.76 Å. There are two inequivalent O2- sites. In the first O2- site, O2- is bonded in a tetrahedral geometry to four equivalent Ca2+ atoms. In the second O2- site, O2- is bonded in a distorted trigonal non-coplanar geometry to one Ca2+ and two equivalent Al3+ atoms.