2D metals are emerging materials in the 2D nanomaterials family and a rapid development is seen in the past few years. The properties of material that play a crucial role to determine their application in various fields need to be explored. Herein, a patch consisting of seven to nine coinage metal (Cu, Ag, and Au) atoms is created in the pore of graphene. Electronic properties, work function, and the interaction energy using periodic energy decomposition analysis (pEDA) of the materials are calculated using density functional theory (DFT). Carbon monoxide (CO) adsorption studies on these surfaces are also performed. All the metal atoms are found to align themselves in hexagonal arrangement in the graphene pore. All the materials with an exception of eight‐Au‐patched graphene are found to be metallic. The eight‐Au‐patched graphene is a low bandgap semiconductor exhibiting a direct bandgap of 0.23 eV. CO molecule adsorbs strongly on Cu‐patched surfaces in comparison to Ag‐ and Au‐patched surfaces. The interaction energy of CO is observed to be higher on seven‐Cu‐patched graphene as compared with Ag‐ and Au‐patched graphene.

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Defects usually play an important role in the modification of the properties of materials. In this investigation, atom vacancy and atomic reorganization defects in various heterostructures obtained using different pristine (or defect-free) and defective transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with pristine and defective graphene have been studied using density functional theory (DFT) calculation. Results reveal that:(i) the contact of pristine and defective graphene with various pristine and defective TMDCs is energetically stable, (ii) the stability of these heterostructures driven by dispersion interaction, (iii) the presence of defect significantly influences the work function of the resulting heterostructure, (iv) the pristine graphene/pristine TMDCs heterostructures are metallic in nature with large Schottky barrier (Φ SBH ), (v) the heterostructures involving defective graphene are direct band gap semiconductors, (vi) the heterostructures involving defective WS 2 are also direct band gap semiconductors, and (vii) the SW defective graphene with pristine WS 2 /WSe 2 forms type-II heterojunction.

The scrutiny of molecular photoswitches has received utmost attention owing to their plethora of promising applications. Bicyclooctadiene/Tetracyclooctane (BOD/TCO) couple is recently recognized as a suitable photoswitching system for molecular solar...

Scrutiny of the stability, properties, and applications of 2D metals belonging to s-, p-, and d-block series has acquired intense research interest in the past few years. The present report is solely focused to systematically explore the stability and properties of 2D hexagonal (HX) lanthanides employing density functional theory calculations. To probe the dynamical stability of these materials, the phonon dispersion calculation is performed. The mechanical stability is analyzed on the basis of the 2D bulk modulus and elastic constant values. Further, to unravel the electronic properties of the 2D metals, electronic band structure, electron localization function, and the work function values are estimated. Moreover, en route to explore their magnetic properties, spin polarized density of states calculation is carried out and the ground state magnetic behavior is studied by considering ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin configurations. Result explicitly demonstrates that 11 lanthanide metals are dynamically stable as an atomically thin 2D HX films. All of them are conducting in nature exhibiting ferromagnetic behavior in their ground state. These results offer the fundamentals of stability and properties of 2D HX lanthanides which can lay the foundation for exploring their diverse future applications.

The information concerning dissociative adsorption of H2S on Li surface is inadequate and the mechanistic insight for its complete dissociation is yet to be explored. The present investigation aims to scrutinize the dissociative adsorption of H2S on Li(110) surface using density functional theory calculations. The climbing image nudged elastic band calculation was employed to unveil the relative energy profiles for S−H dissociation. To elucidate the components of interaction energy responsible for stabilizing the adsorbed moieties on the surface, periodic energy decomposition analysis was performed. A Car‐Parrinello molecular dynamics (CPMD) simulation was performed to understand the dynamic behaviour of H2S on Li(110). Results vividly demonstrates: (i) partially dissociated product with perpendicular S−H is comparatively stable than the parallel SH, (ii) completely dissociated moieties H/H/S are the most stable among all, (iii) dissociation of first S−H is barrierless and the second S−H dissociation is a low energy barrier reaction, (iv) complete dissociation of H2S occurs in a stepwise manner, (v) orbital and electrostatic contributions of the interaction energy plays a vital role in stabilizing the dissociated moieties, and (vi) stepwise dissociation of H2S was further reinforced by CPMD.

The aerobic oxidation of propylene to selectively achieve propylene oxide (PO) is a challenging reaction in catalysis. Therefore, an active catalyst which shows enhanced PO selectivity is extremely desired. In the present investigation, an attempt has been made to explore the catalytic activity of a mono‐atomically thin two‐dimensional (2D) hexagonal (HX) Cu layer for selective propylene epoxidation using molecular O2 with the aid of density functional theory calculations. The results reveal that the conversion of propylene to PO via Eley‐Rideal mechanism is an exoergic and barrierless reaction on the O2 pre‐adsorbed Cu monolayer. The Pauli energy component plays a decisive role for barrierless reaction whereas the electrostatic and orbital contribution governs the energetic stability of PO. Car‐Parrinello molecular dynamics (CPMD) simulation reinforces the outcomes of climbing image nudged elastic band (CI‐NEB) calculation. Further, the formation of oxametallacycle OMC‐2 (0.47 eV) is kinetically favourable over OMC‐1 (0.87 eV) and AHS (0.50 eV) on O pre‐adsorbed 2D HX Cu. Interestingly, the energy barrier for the conversion of OMC‐2 to PO (0.70 eV) is considerably low in comparison with the acetone formation (0.90 eV). Therefore, it is worth to mention that the 2D HX Cu surface provides a promising platform for selective propylene epoxidation.