Inorganic Crystal Structure Database

{{Short description|Chemical database with inorganic structures}}

Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) is a chemical database founded in 1978 by Günter Bergerhoff at the University of Bonn in Germany and I. D. Brown at McMaster University in Canada.{{ cite journal | title = The inorganic crystal structure data base | first1 = G. | last1 = Bergerhoff | first2 = R. | last2 = Hundt | first3 = R. | last3 = Sievers | first4 = I. D. | last4 = Brown | journal = J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. | year = 1983 | volume = 23 | issue = 2 | pages = 66–69 | doi = 10.1021/ci00038a003 }}{{Cite journal |last=Hellenbrandt |first=Mariette |date=2004 |title=The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)—Present and Future |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08893110410001664882 |journal=Crystallography Reviews |language=en |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=17–22 |doi=10.1080/08893110410001664882 |issn=0889-311X|url-access=subscription }} It is now produced by FIZ Karlsruhe in Europe and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. It seeks to contain information on all inorganic crystal structures published since 1913, including pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds (with atomic coordinates).{{ cite journal | title = New developments in the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD): accessibility in support of materials research and design |author1=A. Belsky |author2= M. Hellenbrandt |author3=V. L. Karen |author4=P. Luksch | journal = Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science | year = 2002 | volume = 58 | issue = 3 | pages = 364–369 | doi = 10.1107/S0108768102006948 | pmid = 12037357 }} ICSD contains over 210,000 entries {{As of|2020|alt=as of December 2020}} and is updated twice a year.

A Windows-based PC version has been developed in co-operation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and a PHP-MySQL web based version in co-operation with the Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL) Grenoble.