Vanadium disulfide monolayers for efficient sensing of target volatile organic compounds

Title
Vanadium disulfide monolayers for efficient sensing of target volatile organic compounds
Author(s)
Ahmed, Raja Naveed
Khan, Muhammad Abdul Rauf
Akhtar, Sadaf
Ahmed, Azhar
Hussain, Tanveer
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1973-4584
Email: thussai3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:thussai3
Mushtaq, Muhammad
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1016/j.pnsc.2025.07.003
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/71355
Abstract

The presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere seriously threatens the environment and human health. Therefore, designing efficient nanosensors to detect the targeted VOCs is inevitable. In the present study, using density functional theory (DFT), the adsorption of two prominent VOCs, namely propylene oxide (PO) and crotonaldehyde (CRA), was studied on pristine and titanium/chromium (Ti/Cr)-doped vanadium di-sulfide (Ti/Cr-VS2) monolayers in both trigonal prismatic (H) and octahedral (T) phases. Van der Waals-corrected DFT calculations revealed that the doping of the Ti atom in VS2 is favorable in comparison with Cr doping for both phases. It was observed that the pristine VS2 systems exhibited weak adsorption towards the above-mentioned VOCs. However, doping of Ti in VS2 systems significantly enhanced the adsorption of PO and CRA molecules. The calculated adsorption energy of PO on the T phase of Ti-VS2 systems was 1.66 eV, and for CRA on the H phase of Ti-VS2 systems was 1.71 eV, respectively. Bader charge analysis showed that PO and CRA behave as charge donors to the Ti-VS2. Upon PO/CRA adsorptions, significant changes were observed in the work function of Ti-VS2. Based on our DFT analysis for adsorption parameters, we believe Ti-VS2 could be a promising material for detecting PO and CRA.

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Citation
Progress in Natural Science: Materials International, p. 1-12
ISSN
1745-5391
1002-0071
Start page
1
End page
12
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International

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