Materials Data on Lu3Sc by Materials Project
Lu3Sc is beta Cu3Ti-like structured and crystallizes in the hexagonal P6_3/mmc space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Lu is bonded to eight equivalent Lu and four equivalent Sc atoms to form LuLu8Sc4 cuboctahedra that share corners with four equivalent ScLu12 cuboctahedra, corners with fourteen equivalent LuLu8Sc4 cuboctahedra, edges with six equivalent ScLu12 cuboctahedra, edges with twelve equivalent LuLu8Sc4 cuboctahedra, faces with four equivalent ScLu12 cuboctahedra, and faces with sixteen equivalent LuLu8Sc4 cuboctahedra. There are a spread of Lu–Lu bond distances ranging from 3.38–3.51 Å. There are two shorter (3.36 Å) and two longer (3.47 Å) Lu–Sc bond lengths. Sc is bonded to twelve equivalent Lu atoms to form ScLu12 cuboctahedra that share corners with six equivalent ScLu12 cuboctahedra, corners with twelve equivalent LuLu8Sc4 cuboctahedra, edges with eighteen equivalent LuLu8Sc4 cuboctahedra, faces with eight equivalent ScLu12 cuboctahedra, and faces with twelve equivalent LuLu8Sc4 cuboctahedra.