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ZnCl2

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MP-ID: mp-22909 · Space group: I-42d (#122)

Basic Information

Formula
ZnCl2
MP-ID
mp-22909
Elements
2
Sites
6
Density
2.9265
g/cm³
Volume
154.70
ų
Cell a
5.5951
Å
Cell b
5.5951
Å
Cell c
6.3302
Å
α Angle
116.23
°
β Angle
116.23
°
γ Angle
90.00
°
Space Group
I-42d
Point Group
-42m
Crystal System
Tetragonal
Bravais Lattice
Tetragonal I
Stability
Yes
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
18.22 4.8690 100.0 (1,0,0)
28.91 3.0884 28.2 (1,1,0)
28.91 3.0884 84.7 (1,1,-2)
31.51 2.8388 18.7 (1,0,1)
37.06 2.4257 12.4 (2,1,-1)
37.06 2.4257 12.4 (2,-1,0)
45.52 1.9926 13.7 (2,1,0)
45.52 1.9926 4.6 (2,-1,-2)
45.87 1.9782 14.0 (2,2,-2)
45.87 1.9782 14.0 (2,-2,0)
48.87 1.8637 2.7 (1,0,2)
48.87 1.8637 2.7 (1,0,-3)
49.20 1.8519 22.7 (2,0,1)
49.20 1.8519 22.7 (2,0,-3)
49.75 1.8327 3.7 (3,0,-1)
55.14 1.6658 7.7 (3,1,-1)
55.14 1.6658 23.1 (3,1,-3)
56.72 1.6230 4.3 (3,0,0)
56.72 1.6230 1.4 (3,0,-3)
59.61 1.5511 6.8 (2,1,1)
60.38 1.5330 2.4 (3,2,-2)
60.38 1.5330 2.4 (3,2,-3)
60.38 1.5330 4.7 (3,-2,0)
60.92 1.5207 2.8 (1,1,2)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-1.55690
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-3.20917
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0000
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-8.3628
eV/atom
Volume/atom
25.78
ų
c/a Ratio
1.1314

Electronic Properties

Metallic
Non-metal
Band Gap
4.057
eV
Direct Gap
Yes
CBM
N/A
eV

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
Yes
Total Mag. Moment
0.0000
μB
Mag. Ordering
Unknown
Mag. Sites
0
Magnetization/Volume
0.000000
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

KVRH
6.868
GPa
GVRH
5.593
GPa
Young's Modulus E
13.197
GPa
Poisson Ratio ν
0.180
Pugh Ratio K/G
1.228
Vickers Hardness Est.
1.306
GPa
Ductility
Ductile
Anisotropy
2.212
Lame λ
3.139
GPa

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
Cl · 0.667
Element Family
Metalloid-Nonmetal
Solute Fraction
0.333
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

Elasticity Features

Elastic Modulus Comparison (GPa)
Elastic Features
Elastic Anisotropy AU
2.2120
Homogeneous Poisson ν
0.1800
Debye Temperature
196.0
K
Sound Velocity
1,523.0
m/s
Homogeneity
0.1800

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Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-22909
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of ZnCl2 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-22909, 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_ZnCl2
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   5.59512277
_cell_length_b   5.59512293
_cell_length_c   6.33020594
_cell_angle_alpha   116.22762988
_cell_angle_beta   116.22762914
_cell_angle_gamma   89.99998884
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   ZnCl2
_chemical_formula_sum   'Zn2 Cl4'
_cell_volume   154.69685573
_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
  Zn  Zn0  1  -0.00000000  -0.00000000  -0.00000000  1.0
  Zn  Zn1  1  0.25000000  0.75000000  0.50000000  1.0
  Cl  Cl2  1  0.35762747  0.37500000  0.25000000  1.0
  Cl  Cl3  1  0.12500000  0.64237253  0.75000000  1.0
  Cl  Cl4  1  0.62500000  0.10762747  0.75000000  1.0
  Cl  Cl5  1  0.89237253  0.87500000  0.25000000  1.0
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