Solid State Chemistry

Common structure types

Just what you always wanted: interactive Jmol models of the unit cells of the fifteen crystal structure prototypes in Dr Simon Hall's second-year course on solid state chemistry.


cubic close packing (more detail here)	hexagonal close packing	body centered cubic


rock salt or halite structure, NaCl (more detail here)	caesium chloride structure, CsCl (more detail here)	fluorite structure, CaF₂ (more detail here)


sphalerite structure, β-ZnS (more detail here)	wurtzite structure, α-ZnS (more detail here)	nicolite or nickel arsenide structure, NiAs (more detail here)


anti-fluorite structure, Na₂O	cadmium iodide structure, CdI₂	cadmium chloride structure, CdCl₂


rutile structure, TiO₂ (more detail here)	perovskite structure, CaTiO₃	rhenium trioxide structure, ReO₃


spinel structure, MgAl₂O₄	inverse spinel structure, MgFe₂O₄

Based on template by A. Herráez as modified by J. Gutow

Page skeleton and JavaScript generated by export to web function using Jmol 11.6.8 2008-11-24 13:39 on Apr 11, 2009.