Inorganic Material Database (AtomWork)

The Inorganic Material Database aims to cover all basic crystal structure, x-ray diffraction, property and phase diagram data of inorganic and metallic materials from main literature sources.

You have three choices to search data:
1. "Search material" - Search materials by specifying chemical system, chemical formula, substance name, structure type (prototype), Pearson symbol or space group number.
2. "Search Materials having specified property" - Search materials by specifying property.
3. "Search phase diagrams" - Search phase diagrams by specifying chemical system.

Number of open data

crystal structures	82,000
material properties	55,000
phase diagrams	15,000

AtomWork-Adv (paid service)

If you are interested in inorganic materials data, check out AtomWork-Adv, which offers more data and improved user interface. For details, see https://atomwork-adv.nims.go.jp/service.html

For New Users

To use MatNavi, "DICE Account User Registration", "Domain Name Registration of E-mail Address", and "MatNavi Usage Application" are required. Please see the link for details.

Mass downloading of data is prohibited

Web scraping of data is prohibited!
The acquisition of large amounts of data, whether by manual or mechanical means, is prohibited by the MatNavi Service Terms of Use.
User accounts will be suspended when there is a possibility of data access that is deemed to be a violation.
Please comply with the terms of use, as the MatNavi database service will no longer be viable.

About AtomWork data

AtomWork data part is a collaboration among: National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, Materials Phases Data System (MPDS), Vitznau, Switzerland, and Japan Science Technology Corporation (JST), Tokyo, Japan.
AtomWork data part is copyrighted by National Institute for Materials Science and Materials Phases Data System.
AtomWork data, release 2010/06, is published by National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Editor-in-Chief:

- P. Villars, Switzerland

Section-Editors:

- K. Cenzual, Switzerland (Structures)
- J. L. C. Daams, Netherlands (Structures)
- F. Hulliger, Switzerland (Physical Properties)
- H. Okamoto, Japan (Phase Diagrams)
- K. Osaki, Japan (Structures)
- A. Prince, UK (Phase Diagrams)

For details, please refer to PAULING FILE project.
The results of powder pattern simulations were obtained by software RIETAN-FP: F. Izumi and K. Momma, Solid State Phenom., 130 (2007) 15-20.

About AtomWork software

Citing the database

Please cite AtomWork using either the paper below or the database URL.

●Paper

Xu, Y., Yamazaki, M. and Villars, P. (2011). Inorganic Materials Database for Exploring the Nature of Material. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 50(11S). https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.50.11rh02
BibTeX (click to expand)

@article{Xu2011,
author = {Xu, Yibin and Yamazaki, Masayoshi and Villars, Pierre},
title = {Inorganic Materials Database for Exploring the Nature of Material},
journal = {Japanese Journal of Applied Physics},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
year = {2011},
volume = {50},
number = {11S},
pages = {11RH02},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.50.11rh02}
}

Full list of relevant papers

●Database URL

AtomWork: https://crystdb.nims.go.jp/ National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), accessed {date-of-your-access}.

Disclaimer

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) holds the copyright of this database system.
No reproduction, republication or distribution to third parties of any content is permitted without written permission of NIMS.
NIMS takes no responsibility for any damage incurred by the user as a result of using this database system.

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