Table of Interactive 3D Ionic Solid State Structures

Select from the topics in the menu including simple solids, Group 1, Group 2, Group 14, transition metals, lanthanides and actinides, solid state materials, and bioinorganic chemistry.

Basic Solid State Structures

Cubic close-packed / Face-centred cubic (ccp/fcc)
Hexagonal close packed (hcp)
Simple cubic, Body-centred cubic (bcc) and related Primitive Caesium Chloride (CsCl) structure

Structures derived from close packing by filling holes

Close-packing Type	Hole-filling	Structure Type
Cubic (ccp)	All octahedral	Rock salt NaCl
	All tetrahedral	Fluorite CaF2 Anti-Fluorite Na2O
	Half octahedral	Cadmium Chloride CdCl2 Anatase TiO2
	Half tetrahedral	Zinc Blende/Sphalerite ZnS
	All octahedral and tetrahedral	Lithium Bismuthide Li3Bi
	1/3 octahedral	Yttrium trichloride YCl3
Hexagonal (hcp)	All octahedral	Nickel Arsenide
	Half octahedral	Cadmium Iodide CdI2 Rutile TiO2
	All tetrahedral	No structure exists
	Half tetrahedral	Wurtzite ZnS
	1/3 octahedral	Bismuth triiodide BiI3