Formation energy discrepancy

The formation energies for a particular compound are different in the phase diagram app versus the API or materials detail page. I use the API and the compound was stable two weeks ago, but now it’s unstable. The formation energy of the compound appears to have increased by 300 meV/at. What’s happening here?

What is the MP id? I will take a look.

Miao

The ID is mp-15254 Thanks!

It appears to me that the Ehull of mp-15254 is ZEOR in both phase diagram app and materials detail page.

Miao


Hi miaoliu,

The formation energy is -3.499 in the phase diagram and -3.219 in the materials page. This discrepancy in formation energy is causing a major problem in my calculations. Please advise.

Thanks!

P.S. This discrepancy in formation energies is also found for mp-2741.

I see what you are talking about now. I will investigate and get back to you.

Miao

Hello,

The data have been rebuilt. It seems to me that the inconsistency is gone. Please take a look and let me know if there is a problem.

Miao

Dear Miaoliu,

The same inconsistency occurs with La2O3 and La2Zr2O7 as compared to the phase diagram app for La-Li-Zr_O. Is there any updated for these values?

Thanks a lot!

Leni

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Hi Thuy_tran,

This should be a fixed. it was due to an incomplete copy over of data from our DB update. We’ve implemented some new code to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

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I got the updated value. Thanks a lot!

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