Materials Data on SmGe2 by Materials Project
SmGe2 crystallizes in the tetragonal I4_1/amd space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Sm is bonded to twelve equivalent Ge atoms to form a mixture of edge and face-sharing SmGe12 cuboctahedra. There are eight shorter (3.17 Å) and four longer (3.47 Å) Sm–Ge bond lengths. Ge is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to six equivalent Sm and three equivalent Ge atoms. There are two shorter (2.54 Å) and one longer (2.59 Å) Ge–Ge bond lengths.