Example structures for the 230 crystallographic Space Groups

Below are examples of structures illustrating the 230 crystallographic space groups.

These examples have been taken from the Space Group List project and are made available from this page via CrystalWorks.

Example structures for each of the 230 Space Groups

The Space Group List project was completed during 2014 (the International Year of Crystallography) by Frank Hoffmann at the University of Hamburg. Full details are made available on his Fascination of Crystals and Symmetry Blog.

All structures on the Hoffmann pages are drawn using the VESTA program; K. Momma and F. Izumi, J. Appl. Crystallogr. 2011, 44, 1272-1276.

The CrystalWorks link on this page provide full display functionality for all 230 structure. In particular full interactive structure display is available via JSmol. This provides useful features which are complementary to those of VESTA.