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KCl

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MP-ID: mp-23193 · Space group: Fm-3m (#225)

Basic Information

Formula
KCl
MP-ID
mp-23193
Elements
2
Sites
2
Density
1.9958
g/cm³
Volume
62.03
ų
Cell a
4.4433
Å
Cell b
4.4433
Å
Cell c
4.4433
Å
α Angle
60.00
°
β Angle
60.00
°
γ Angle
60.00
°
Space Group
Fm-3m
Point Group
m-3m
Crystal System
Cubic
Bravais Lattice
Cubic F
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 10)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
28.41 3.1419 49.5 (1,1,0)
28.41 3.1419 98.9 (1,0,1)
40.61 2.2216 100.0 (2,1,1)
50.30 1.8140 32.9 (2,0,0)
58.78 1.5709 14.6 (2,2,0)
66.55 1.4051 38.7 (3,2,1)
73.89 1.2827 18.6 (1,1,-2)
73.89 1.2827 9.3 (2,-1,-1)
87.90 1.1108 4.5 (4,2,2)
87.90 1.1108 4.5 (2,-2,0)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-2.24775
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-3.73770
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0000
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-8.2606
eV/atom
Volume/atom
31.01
ų
c/a Ratio
-

Electronic Properties

Metallic
Non-metal
Band Gap
5.045
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
16.489
GPa
GVRH
9.177
GPa
Young's Modulus E
23.223
GPa
Poisson Ratio ν
0.265
Pugh Ratio K/G
1.797
Vickers Hardness Est.
0.685
GPa
Ductility
Brittle
Anisotropy
0.845
Lame λ
10.371
GPa

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
K · 0.500
Element Family
Alkali-AlkEarth
Solute Fraction
0.500
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

Elasticity Features

Elastic Modulus Comparison (GPa)
Elastic Features
Elastic Anisotropy AU
0.8450
Homogeneous Poisson ν
0.2650
Homogeneity
0.2650

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Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-23193
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of KCl were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-23193, 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_KCl
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   4.44327706
_cell_length_b   4.44327701
_cell_length_c   4.44327718
_cell_angle_alpha   59.99999877
_cell_angle_beta   59.99999914
_cell_angle_gamma   59.99999472
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   KCl
_chemical_formula_sum   'K1 Cl1'
_cell_volume   62.02905560
_cell_formula_units_Z   1
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
  K  K0  1  -0.00000000  0.00000000  -0.00000000  1.0
  Cl  Cl1  1  0.50000000  0.50000000  0.50000000  1.0
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