Discovery of an olivine-type lithium manganese thiophosphate, LiMnPS4, via a building block approach

Srikanth Balijapelly; Kartik Ghosh; Aleksandr V Chernatynskiy; Amitava Choudhury

doi:10.1039/d1cc05168g

Discovery of an olivine-type lithium manganese thiophosphate, LiMnPS₄, via a building block approach

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Dec 7;57(97):13182-13185. doi: 10.1039/d1cc05168g.

Authors

Srikanth Balijapelly¹, Kartik Ghosh², Aleksandr V Chernatynskiy³, Amitava Choudhury¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA. choudhurya@mst.edu.
² Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Sci, Missouri State University, 901 S. National Ave., Springfield, MO 65897, USA.
³ Department of Physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA.

PMID: 34812825
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc05168g

Abstract

An olivine-type orthothiophospate LiMnPS₄ has been synthesized for the first time through a building block approach by reacting preformed ternary lithium thiophospate with MnCl₂. Diffuse reflectance measurements show an optical band gap of 2.36 eV, which is further confirmed by DFT calculations. Irreversible weak ferromagnetic ordering and metamagnetism are verified through preliminary magnetic measurements.