NiZr: enthalpy of formation

12 accepted literature formation-enthalpy value(s) (experimental 4, model 5, DFT 3); experimental median -49.515 kJ/mol-atom (n = 4); Materials Project -43.971 kJ/mol-atom (mp-aaaaaavk); OQMD -43.978 kJ/mol-atom (oqmd-17864).

Systems: Ni–Zr

Literature values

Enthalpy of formation of NiZr reported in the literature (12)
Value	Phase as printed	T (K)	Class	Method	System	Source	Location
-53 kJ/mol-atom ± 3	NiZr	298.15	experimental	experimental	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Sidorov 1989	Table 6, p. 7, row 53 report
-50.5 kJ/mol-atom ± 1.5	NiZr	298.15	experimental	experimental	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Guo 1998 doi	Table 6, p. 7, row 54 report
-48.53 kJ/mol-atom ± 2.47	NiZr	298.15	experimental	experimental	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Henaff 1984 doi	Table 6, p. 7, row 52 report
-46.7 kJ/mol-atom ± 2.5	NiZr	298.15	experimental	experimental	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Zaitsev 2002 doi	Table 6, p. 7, row 55 report
-50.87 kJ/mol-atom	NiZr		model	empirical	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Zhang 2007 doi	Table 6, p. 7, row 58 report
-50 kJ/mol-atom	NiZr		model	empirical	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Colinet 1985 doi	Table 6, p. 7, row 57 report
-48.369 kJ/mol-atom	NiZr		model		Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020	Table 6, p. 7, row 62 report
-48.243 kJ/mol-atom	NiZr		model	empirical	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Watson 1981 doi	Table 6, p. 7, row 56 report
-46.23 kJ/mol-atom	NiZr		model		Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020	Table 6, p. 7, row 63 report
-48.384 kJ/mol-atom	NiZr		DFT	DFT	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Hennig 2005 doi	Table 6, p. 7, row 60 report
-48.137 kJ/mol-atom	NiZr		DFT	DFT	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Du 2014 doi	Table 6, p. 7, row 61 report
-43.997 kJ/mol-atom	NiZr		DFT	DFT	Ni–Zr	[1] Jana 2020 cites Kirklin	Table 6, p. 7, row 59 report

Uncertainty budget

Components kept separate, in the value's unit (literature SCHEMA.md, UNCERTAINTY_CALIBRATION.md): effective = max(sqrt(max(printed, reading, method)^2 + composition^2 + conversion^2), scatter). The method floor is the robust between-study scatter of the method class in ORCHID (calibrated) or a documented prior; printed values and printed uncertainties are unchanged.

Uncertainty budget of the literature values of NiZr
Value	Unit	Printed	Reading	Method (class, basis)	Effective
-53	kJ/mol-atom	3	5.000e-5	4.1 (experimental_unspecified, cleaned_below_threshold)	4.1
-50.5	kJ/mol-atom	1.5	5.000e-5	4.1 (experimental_unspecified, cleaned_below_threshold)	4.1
-48.53	kJ/mol-atom	2.47	5.000e-5	4.1 (experimental_unspecified, cleaned_below_threshold)	4.1
-46.7	kJ/mol-atom	2.5	5.000e-5	4.1 (experimental_unspecified, cleaned_below_threshold)	4.1
-50.87	kJ/mol-atom		5.000e-5	3.9 (model_calculated, calibrated)	3.9
-50	kJ/mol-atom		5.000e-5	3.9 (model_calculated, calibrated)	3.9
-48.369	kJ/mol-atom		5.000e-5	3.9 (model_calculated, calibrated)	3.9
-48.243	kJ/mol-atom		5.000e-5	3.9 (model_calculated, calibrated)	3.9
-46.23	kJ/mol-atom		5.000e-5	3.9 (model_calculated, calibrated)	3.9
-48.384	kJ/mol-atom		5.000e-5	3.929 (dft, calibrated)	3.929
-48.137	kJ/mol-atom		5.000e-5	3.929 (dft, calibrated)	3.929
-43.997	kJ/mol-atom		5.000e-5	3.929 (dft, calibrated)	3.929

DFT formation energies

Lowest-energy entries at this composition. Materials Project and OQMD use different energy references and are never averaged. 1 eV/atom = 96.485 kJ/mol-atom.

DFT formation energy of NiZr
Source	Entry	kJ/mol-atom	eV/atom	Space group	E above hull (kJ/mol-atom)	E above hull (eV/atom)	Theoretical
Materials Project	mp-aaaaaavk	-43.971	-0.455734	Cmcm	0	0	no
OQMD	oqmd-17864	-43.978	-0.455798	Cmcm	0.1012	0.001	no

DFT sources: A. Jain et al., Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation, APL Materials 1 (2013) 011002. doi:10.1063/1.4812323 (CC BY 4.0); J. E. Saal et al., JOM 65 (2013) 1501-1509; S. Kirklin et al., npj Comput. Mater. 1 (2015) 15010. doi:10.1007/s11837-013-0755-4 (CC BY 4.0);

Sources

Asmita Jana, Soumya Sridar, Suzana G. Fries, Thomas Hammerschmidt, K.C. Hari Kumar, Thermodynamic modelling of the Ni–Zr system, Intermetallics 116, 106640 (2020). doi:10.1016/j.intermet.2019.106640

Please cite

R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID-Values: thermodynamic and phase-equilibrium values read from the literature (version 2026.10; Version 1, machine-extracted), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23735569
R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID-Parity: DFT-vs-experiment formation-enthalpy benchmark (version 2026.10; Version 1, machine-extracted), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23735943
R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID data: umbrella record of the ORCHID datasets (version 2026.10; Version 1, machine-extracted), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23736065

Also cite the original source of every value you use (paper_citation / paper_doi, and cited_dois for values the paper cites from earlier work); A. Jain et al., The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation, APL Materials 1 (2013) 011002, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4812323 (CC BY 4.0); J. E. Saal et al., JOM 65 (2013) 1501, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0755-4 and S. Kirklin et al., npj Comput. Mater. 1 (2015) 15010, https://doi.org/10.1038/npjcompumats.2015.10 (CC BY 4.0); G. Kim, S. V. Meschel, P. Nash, W. Chen, Experimental formation enthalpies for intermetallic phases and other inorganic compounds, Scientific Data 4 (2017) 170162, https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.162; B. Hallstedt, The SGTE collection of binary datasets, Calphad 89 (2025) 102833, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.calphad.2025.102833 (CC BY 4.0), and the original assessment named in each file. Version 1, machine-extracted: values were read by language-model readers constrained to quote their source and checked automatically, and the release was then audited on the printed pages by adversarial audits, an independent second review of fit-facing records and a preliminary human review of a frozen sample. Flags such as accepted and ESPEI-ready record screening results, not certification; known issues are listed in the release notes.

@misc{orchid_literature_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID-Values: thermodynamic and phase-equilibrium values read from the literature}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23735569},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23735569},
  note      = {Version 1, machine-extracted}
}

@misc{orchid_dft_benchmark_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID-Parity: DFT-vs-experiment formation-enthalpy benchmark}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23735943},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23735943},
  note      = {Version 1, machine-extracted}
}

@misc{orchid_data_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID data: umbrella record of the ORCHID datasets}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23736065},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23736065},
  note      = {Version 1, machine-extracted}
}