“…Carefully studying the transformation of different dimensional zinc phosphates, Rao and co-workers [12,13] believed that the zero-dimensional (0-D) monomers, comprising four-membered rings, are the basic structural units of the zinc phosphates and after an optimal precursor state, such as the ladder structure, to construct into high-dimensional structure. However, compared with the researches for the structural transformation mechanism on MPOs (M ¼ Al, Ga and Zn) families with the M of 4-, 5-and 6-coordination (or mixtures), the research for that on indiumphosphates is rearly documented, though it might be more readily understood because only rigid [17,18], 9/8 [19], 5/4 [20], 6.8/8 [21], and 2-D layers with In/P ratios of 1/3 [22], 1/2 [23][24][25], 4/7 [26], 1/1 [20] up to now. The low-dimensional indiumphosphate, such as 1-D chains and 0-D monomer, has not yet been discovered, which results that there is not sufficient data to systematically study the structural transformation mechanism.…”