fcc Fullerene (K₃C₆₀)

Unit cell

Lattice constants

a = 14.240 Å, b = 14.240 Å, c = 14.240 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°

Cell volume

2887.6 ų

Atoms in the conventional cell

492 (K 12, C 480)

Formula units Z

12

Pearson symbol

cF492 — cubic, face-centred lattice, 492 atoms per conventional cell

Symmetry operations

192 per cell

Crystallographic sites

The multiplicity and the Wyckoff letter say how many copies of the site the group makes in one cell and on which kind of symmetry element the site sits; the 492 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 192 operations. Press Wyckoff under Colour to see the sites, and tick a symmetry element on the left to see which atoms lie on it.

How to read the label

A40B_cF492_225_j2l_ac-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol cF492, then the space-group number 225, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (K: 4a; K: 8c; C: 96j; C: 192l; C: 192l). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

Cs₃C₆₀, CsK₂C₆₀, CsNa₂C₆₀, CsRb₂C₆₀, KNa₂C₆₀, Rb₃C₆₀, RbCs₂C₆₀, RbNa₂C₆₀ <!--beginning with an

Note: fcc Fullerene.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A40B_cF492_225_j2l_ac-001 (M. J. Mehl et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. 136, S1 (2017); D. Hicks et al., ibid. 161, S1 (2019) and 199, 110450 (2021); S. Eckert et al., ibid. 240, 112988 (2024)). Symmetry elements, Wyckoff assignment and the diagram are computed on this page from the group operations.