Crystal Lattice Structures:	Reference Date:  1 Jan 1997
	Last Modified: 21 Oct 2004

The Graphite Crystal Structure

You can now

• see the structure from several perspectives;
• examine the structure with an external viewer; or
• download the coordinates of the atoms in these pictures in XYZ format.
• visualize the structure (Uses the JMOL Applet)

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• This is the original version of our graphite structure page. We have several better versions:
  • Unbuckled (P6₃/mmc) graphite, Strukturbericht Designation A9
  • Buckled (P6₃mc) graphite
  • Rhombohedral (R3m) graphite

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• Prototype: C (graphite)
• Pearson Symbol: hP4
• Strukturbericht Designation: A9
• Space Group: P6₃/mmc (Cartesian and lattice coordinate listings available)
• Number: 194
• Other Elements with this Structure: none
• Primitive Vectors:
  • A₁ = ½ a X - ½ 3^½ a Y
  • A₂ = ½ a X + ½ 3^½ a Y
  • A₃ = c Z
• Basis Vectors: (space group files generated with u = 0)
  • B₁ = ¼ A₃ = ¼ cZ
  • B₂ = ¾ A₃ = ¾ cZ
  • B₃ = 1/3 A₁ + 2/3 A₂ + (¼ + u) A₃ = ½ a X + 12^-½ a Y + (¼ + u) c Z
  • B₄ = 2/3 A₁ + 1/3 A₂ + (¾ + u) A₃ = ½ a X - 12^-½ a Y + (¾ + u) c Z

See these vectors in a LaTeX output format.

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Structures indexed by: Strukturbericht Symbol Pearson Symbol Space Group Prototype

This is a mirror of an old page created at the Naval Research Laboratory Center for Computational Materials Science The maintained successor is hosted at http://www.aflowlib.org/CrystalDatabase/ and published as M. Mehl et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. 136 (Supp.), S1-S828 (2017).