Interdisciplinary Education Group Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on Nanostructured Interfaces University of Wisconsin - Madison

ZnS Example

Names: Zinc Sulfide or Zinc Blende. This structure is built from tetrahedral units. The pompom inside represents a zinc ion and the clear tetrahedron represents four sulfide ions in a tetrahedral arrangement around the zinc.

Construction

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Side view
	1. Build a corner-shared tetrahedral layer.	2. Build another tetrahedral layer.	3. Build a third tetrahedral layer.

Top view
Side view
	4. Stack two tetrahedral layers	5. Stack three tetrahedral layers

Alternate representations for this structure (all views show identical structures):

Polyhedral ZnS model assembled using the kit.