“…Computational modeling of these systems with satisfactory accuracy and computational efficiency is feasible with a semilocal density functional such as strongly constrained and appropriately normed (SCAN) meta-GGA functionals. It has been reported by several research groups that the recently developed meta-GGA functionals, in particular, the SCAN functional performs quite well, similar to and even in some cases better than the HSE-06 functional. − They have demonstrated that the meta-GGA SCAN functional is applied to many different systems, like perovskites, 2D materials, wide bandgap oxide materials, donor and acceptor impurities in group-IV semiconductors, insulators, topological insulators, and alloys, to understand the properties of the material like mechanical, vibrational, optical, magnetic, structural, large bandgap optical phonons, elastic constants, electronics, photocathode, photocatalytic water splitting, etc. In this study, we have tested the efficacy of the SCAN meta-GGA functional in analyzing the electronic properties of vdW-layered materials, with the C 2 N/MoS 2 heterostructure serving as a prototype.…”