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NiS2

Traditional Materials TRA

MP-ID: mp-1042115 · Space group: I-42d (#122)

Basic Information

Formula
NiS2
MP-ID
mp-1042115
Elements
2
Sites
6
Density
3.5027
g/cm³
Volume
116.46
ų
Cell a
5.7375
Å
Cell b
5.7375
Å
Cell c
5.7375
Å
α Angle
127.08
°
β Angle
127.08
°
γ Angle
78.11
°
Space Group
I-42d
Point Group
-42m
Crystal System
Tetragonal
Bravais Lattice
Tetragonal I
Stability
No
Packing Fraction
0.7400

X-ray Diffraction

Diffraction Pattern
X-axis: 2θ (°); Y-axis: relative intensity; CuKa ; λ=1.5406 Å
Diffraction Peaks (Top 24)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
20.02 4.4345 82.8 (1,0,-1)
31.88 2.8072 100.0 (2,0,-1)
34.94 2.5682 18.3 (2,1,-2)
40.74 2.2147 23.6 (2,-1,-1)
50.37 1.8118 13.2 (3,0,-2)
50.49 1.8076 24.5 (2,-2,0)
54.53 1.6828 4.8 (3,2,-3)
54.65 1.6794 37.9 (3,1,-3)
54.85 1.6739 4.3 (2,-1,-2)
60.96 1.5198 26.6 (3,-1,-2)
62.87 1.4782 3.4 (3,0,-3)
66.52 1.4056 5.3 (4,1,-3)
66.80 1.4004 5.7 (3,-2,-1)
68.28 1.3737 9.3 (3,3,-4)
74.09 1.2796 3.3 (4,-1,-2)
74.19 1.2782 7.3 (2,-2,2)
77.23 1.2352 1.7 (4,3,-4)
77.50 1.2317 1.8 (4,1,-4)
77.76 1.2282 3.3 (3,-2,-2)
83.02 1.1633 5.4 (4,-2,-1)
84.71 1.1443 2.4 (4,-1,-3)
87.60 1.1138 2.4 (4,4,-4)
87.76 1.1122 2.2 (4,3,-5)
88.02 1.1096 2.0 (5,0,-3)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-0.21113
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-4.89611
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.3804
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-4.5608
eV/atom
Volume/atom
19.41
ų
c/a Ratio
1.0000

Electronic Properties

Metallic
Metal
Band Gap
0
eV
Direct Gap
No
CBM
N/A
eV

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
No
Total Mag. Moment
0.0002
μB
Mag. Ordering
NM
Mag. Sites
0
Magnetization/Volume
0.000000
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
S · 0.667
Element Family
N/A
Solute Fraction
0.333
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar
Rating & Classification
Tier
A
Score
0.503
Family
Binary Alloy
Matrix Element
S · 0.667

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Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-1042115
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of NiS2 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-1042115, database version v2026.04.13).

Literature Citation

Horton, M.K., Huck, P., Yang, R.X. et al. Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project. Nat. Mater. 24, 1522–1532 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0

BibTeX
@article{Horton2025,
  author  = {Horton, Matthew K. and Huck, Patrick and Yang, Ruo Xi and Munro, Jason M. and Dwaraknath, Shyam and Ganose, Alex M. and Kingsbury, Ryan S. and Wen, Mingjian and Shen, Jimmy X. and Mathis, Tyler S. and Kaplan, Aaron D. and Berket, Karlo and Riebesell, Janosh and George, Janine and Rosen, Andrew S. and Spotte-Smith, Evan W. C. and McDermott, Matthew J. and Cohen, Orion A. and Dunn, Alex and Kuner, Matthew C. and Rignanese, Gian-Marco and Petretto, Guido and Waroquiers, David and Griffin, Sinead M. and Neaton, Jeffrey B. and Chrzan, Daryl C. and Asta, Mark and Hautier, Geoffroy and Cholia, Shreyas and Ceder, Gerbrand and Ong, Shyue Ping and Jain, Anubhav and Persson, Kristin A.},
  title   = {Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project},
  journal = {Nature Materials},
  year    = {2025},
  volume  = {24},
  number  = {10},
  pages   = {1522--1532},
  month   = {oct},
  doi     = {10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0},
  issn    = {1476-4660},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0},
  abstract = {The Materials Project was launched formally in 2011 to drive materials discovery forwards through high-throughput computation and open data. More than a decade later, the Materials Project has become an indispensable tool used by more than 600,000 materials researchers around the world. This Perspective describes how the Materials Project, as a data platform and a software ecosystem, has helped to shape research in data-driven materials science. We cover how sustainable software and computational methods have accelerated materials design while becoming more open source and collaborative in nature. Next, we present cases where the Materials Project was used to understand and discover functional materials. We then describe our efforts to meet the needs of an expanding user base, through technical infrastructure updates ranging from data architecture and cloud resources to interactive web applications. Finally, we discuss opportunities to better aid the research community, with the vision that more accessible and easy-to-understand materials data will result in democratized materials knowledge and an increasingly collaborative community.}
}

3D Crystal Structure Rendering

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Raw CIF Data
# generated using pymatgen
data_NiS2
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   5.73747321
_cell_length_b   5.73747321
_cell_length_c   5.73747321
_cell_angle_alpha   127.08336211
_cell_angle_beta   127.08336211
_cell_angle_gamma   78.11472452
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   NiS2
_chemical_formula_sum   'Ni2 S4'
_cell_volume   116.45510208
_cell_formula_units_Z   2
loop_
 _symmetry_equiv_pos_site_id
 _symmetry_equiv_pos_as_xyz
  1  'x, y, z'
loop_
 _atom_site_type_symbol
 _atom_site_label
 _atom_site_symmetry_multiplicity
 _atom_site_fract_x
 _atom_site_fract_y
 _atom_site_fract_z
 _atom_site_occupancy
  Ni  Ni0  1  0.75000000  0.25000000  0.50000000  1.0
  Ni  Ni1  1  0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000000  1.0
  S  S2  1  0.87500000  0.87920100  0.50420100  1.0
  S  S3  1  0.12079900  0.62500000  0.99579900  1.0
  S  S4  1  0.37500000  0.37079900  0.49579900  1.0
  S  S5  1  0.62920100  0.12500000  0.00420100  1.0
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