Crystal Structure of 3R‐LiTiS 2 and its Stability Compared to Other Polymorphs

The crystal structure of 3R‐LiTiS 2 was studied with combined experimental and theoretical approaches. The 3R polymorph of lithium titanium disulfide crystallizes rhombohedrally in the well‐known NaCrS 2 type with lattice parameters a = 352.98(1) pm, c = 1807.51(3) pm. The relative stability of 3R‐LiTiS 2 with respect to other known and hypothetical polymorphs was evaluated theoretically at DFT level employing the hybrid method B3LYP. 3R‐LiTiS 2 is less stable than the most common 1T phase (by 4 kJ · mol –1 ), and is more stable (by 5 kJ · mol –1 ) than the known phase c‐LiTiS 2 thus confirming the importance of this phase for further investigations.