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Discovery of an olivine-type lithium manganese thiophosphate, LiMnPS4, via a building block approach
Srikanth Balijapelly1, Kartik Ghosh2, Aleksandr V Chernatynskiy3
1Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA. choudhurya@mst.edu.
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.
