Material science is one of the decisive tools towards engineering versatile compounds for numerous technological applications. Over the last decades, thiospinels have been attracting great interest due to their unique characteristics and potential utilizations offering innovative and interesting features. The characteristics of these transition metal sulfides play a key role in many different applications and make thiospinels an essential class of material. To the best of our knowledge, this work, for the first time, summarizes broadband studies on thiospinels reported in the literature. The scope of this review covers all synthesis methods applied over, the chemical and physical properties, and the clean energy applications of thiospinels, which have achieved tremendous significance. It has been underlined and proposed the challenges and future perspectives based on sulfur based ternary compounds. Moreover, this review draws attention to the current and future research needs of thiospinel materials to improve and broaden their applications and thus commercialization.

材料科学是为众多技术应用设计多功能化合物的决定性工具之一。在过去的几十年里，硫尖晶石因其独特的特性和潜在的利用提供了创新和有趣的特性而引起了极大的兴趣。这些过渡金属硫化物的特性在许多不同的应用中起着关键作用，并使硫尖晶石成为必不可少的一类材料。据我们所知，这项工作首次总结了文献中报道的硫尖晶石宽带研究。这篇综述的范围涵盖了硫尖晶石的所有合成方法、化学和物理性质以及清洁能源应用，这些都取得了巨大的意义。强调并提出了基于硫基三元化合物的挑战和未来前景。此外，这篇综述引起了人们对硫尖晶石材料当前和未来研究需求的关注，以改善和扩大其应用，从而实现商业化。