Ternary alkali ion thiogallates, A5GaS4 (A = Li and Na), with isolated tetrahedral building units and their ionic conductivities

• Published in: Dalton transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry Vol. 50; no. 21; pp. 7372 - 7379
• Main Authors: Balijapelly, Srikanth, Sandineni, Prashanth, Adhikary, Amit, Gerasimchuk, Nikolay N, Chernatynskiy, Aleksandr V, Choudhury, Amitava
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry 07.06.2021
• Subjects: Coordination; Crystallography; Density functional theory; Energy gap; Equivalent circuits; High temperature; Interlayers; Ion currents; Lithium; Mathematical analysis; Metal ions; Parameters; Room temperature; Sodium; Tetrahedra

Two new ternary thiogallates in the A5GaS4 (A = Li (i) and Na (ii)) series have been synthesized for the first time employing a gas passing route using oxide precursors and a high temperature solid state route using stoichiometric combinations of elements, respectively. Li5GaS4 crystallizes in the P...