Welcome to Structure World!

Crystal Structures:
Lattices and Solids in
Stereoview
by Mark Ladd

Structure World is designed for students who are interested in learning the basic structures of inorganic chemistry. Each structure here is shown in several different representations and includes a model that you can manipulate and rotate in real time if you have the proper plug-in installed.

Structure World was originally designed to accompany a senior to graduate level special topics course in Solid State Chemistry, but is also useful in other introductory inorganic courses. It should therefore be of interest to inorganic chemists everywhere.

To make the best use of these pages, you will want to install a current copy of MDL's hime Plug-In. (Chime is obsolete. I need to update these to jmol; just haven't found the time yet). You will be able to rotate it, change the display features, enlarge/shrink, display solvent accessible surfaces and more.. But not for now, sorry.

We only have a limited number of structures on display. Maybe someday there will be more, but probably not anytime soon.