title: Some statistics on intermetallic compounds.
abstract: It is still largely unknown why intermetallic phases show such a large variety of crystal structures, with unit cell sizes varying between 1 and more than 20 000 atoms. The goal of our study was, therefore, to get a general overview of the symmetries, unit cell sizes, stoichiometries, most frequent structure types, and their stability fields based on the Mendeleev numbers as ordering parameters. A total of 20829 structures crystallizing in 2166 structure types have been studied for this purpose. Thereby, the focus was on a subset of 6441 binary intermetallic compounds, which crystallize in 943 structure types.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Crystallography, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich , Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dshemuchadse
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Steurer