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Penta-BeP2 Monolayer: A Superior Sensor for Detecting Toxic Gases in the Air with Excellent Sensitivity, Selectivity, and Reversibility

Journal

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 14, Issue 30, Pages 35229-35236

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c07482

Keywords

pentagonal; gas sensor; sensitivity; selectivity; toxic gas sensing

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21905159, 11974208]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2019BA010, ZR2019MA054, 2019KJJ020, ZR2020YQ05]
  3. GH fund B [20220202, ghfund202202026143]

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This study demonstrates that the penta-BeP2 monolayer is an excellent sensor for toxic gases, showing high selectivity, sensitivity, and reversibility.
Directly and quickly detecting toxic gases in the air is urgently needed in industrial production and our daily life. However, the poor gas selectivity and low sensitivity under ambient conditions limit the development of gas sensors. In this work, we demonstrate that the penta-BeP2 monolayer is an excellent toxic gas sensor by using first-principles calculations. The calculated results show that the semiconducting penta-BeP2 monolayer can chemisorb toxic gas molecules (including CO, NH3 , NO, and NO2) with distinct charge transfer (-0.182 to 1.129 e) but negligibly interact with ambient gas molecules (including H-2 , N-2 , H2O, O-2 , and CO2), indicating high gas selectivity for primary environmental gases. The calculated I-V curves show that the penta-BeP2 monolayer exhibits a fast response with toxic gas molecules. Upon interaction with CO, NH3 , NO, and NO2 molecules at a bias voltage of 0.7 V, the currents are 10.23, 14.48, 32.10, and 129.90 times that of the pristine penta-BeP2 monolayer, respectively, which induces high sensitivity values of 9.23, 13.48, 31.10, and 128.90, respectively. Moreover, the moderate adsorption energies of all toxic gas molecules guarantee that the penta-BeP2 monolayer possesses good reversibility at room temperature with a short recovery time. Herein, all of our results indicate that the penta-BeP2 monolayer could be a superior candidate for sensing toxic gases with high selectivity, sensitivity, and reversibility.

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