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Structure of the water-splitting photocatalyst oxysulfide α-LaOInS2 and ab initio prediction of new polymorphs.

Houria KabbourAdlane SayedeSebastien SaitzekGauthier LefèvreLaurent CarioMartine TrentesauxPascal Roussel
Published in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2020)
We unveil the structure and investigate the visible light water-splitting of the photocatalyst α-LaOInS2, the second polymorph in this composition. This remarkable oxysulfide exhibits rare mixed anion InS5O octahedra leading to both O-2p and S-3p hybridized with indium states in the vicinity of the Fermi level. Ab initio structure prediction shows the stability of such heteroleptic environments and points to other hypothetical polymorphs.
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