Zr-Doped h-BN Monolayer: A High-Sensitivity Atmospheric Pollutant-Monitoring Sensor.
SENSORS 2022;
22:s22114103. [PMID:
35684723 PMCID:
PMC9185361 DOI:
10.3390/s22114103]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Revised: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
In the post-epidemic era, industrial production has gradually recovered, and the attendant air pollution problem has attracted much attention. In this study, the Zr-doped h-BN monolayer (Zr-BN) is proposed as a new gas sensor for air pollution. Based on density functional theory (DFT), we calculated and compared the adsorption energies (Eads), geometric parameters, the shortest distance between gas and substrate (dsub/gas), density of states (DOS), electron localization function (ELF), charge density difference (CDD), band structure, band gap energy change rate (ΔEg), and sensitivity (S) of Zr-BN adsorption systems (SO2F2, SOF2, SO2, NO, and CO2 adsorption systems). The results show that Zr-BN had strong adsorption and high sensitivity to the above-mentioned polluted gases, and the sensitivity was in the order of SOF2 > SO2F2 > CO2 > SO2 > NO. Therefore, this study provides a theoretical basis for the preparation of Zr-BN gas sensors and provides new ideas and methods for the development of other gas sensors.
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