Materials Data on SmO2 by Materials Project
SmO2 is Baddeleyite-like structured and crystallizes in the monoclinic P2_1/m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Sm is bonded in a 7-coordinate geometry to seven O atoms. There are a spread of Sm–O bond distances ranging from 2.31–2.50 Å. There are two inequivalent O sites. In the first O site, O is bonded to four equivalent Sm atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing OSm4 tetrahedra. In the second O site, O is bonded in a trigonal planar geometry to three equivalent Sm atoms.