READ ME File For 'Investigation of Factors Affecting the Stability of Compounds formed by Isovalent Substitution in Layered Oxychalcogenides, Leading to Identification of Ba3Sc2O5Cu2Se2, Ba3Y2O5Cu2S2, Ba3Sc2O5Ag2Se2 and Ba3In2O5Ag2Se2' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D2122 ReadMe Author: GEOFFREY HYETT, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: Gregory J. Limburn, Daniel W. Davies, Neil Langridge, Zahida Malik, Benjamin A. D. Williamson, David O. Scanlon, and Geoffrey Hyett. Investigation of Factors Affecting the Stability of Compounds formed by Isovalent Substitution in Layered Oxychalcogenides, Leading to Identification of Ba3Sc2O5Cu2Se2, Ba3Y2O5Cu2S2, Ba3Sc2O5Ag2Se2 and Ba3In2O5Ag2Se2 Journal Journal of Materials Chemistry C PAPER DOI: 10.1039/D1TC05051F This dataset contains: This publication reports the synthesis of 4 new layered oxychalcogenides materials. crystal informaiton files (cif) for the 4 compounds based on Reitveld refinement of X-ray diffraction data. The zip also contians an excel file including raw XRD data and diffuse reflectance data. Date of data collection: jan 2017 to Dec 2021 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Licence: CC BY Related projects: EPSRC grant EP/T011793/1, Layered copper oxychalcogenides for next generation p-type transparent conductors Date that the file was created: Feb, 2022.