Doping strategy has been applied in lots of areas holding promising performance for many functions. Here, we systemically report the main trends in structural, electronic properties and chemical bonding for V doped into 2H-NbSe 2 in two types of doping by means of the first-principles PBE-GGA calculations. To investigate the stability of the doped system with changing concentration of V atoms, 2 Â 2 Â 1, 3 Â 3 Â 1 and 4 Â 4 Â 1 2H-NbSe 2 supercells have been taken into consideration. Results show that it is easier to be doped as the concentration of dopant V is lower and the substituted doping structure is more stable than that of the dopant embedded into the interlayer. In addition, it is found that the dopant V atom forms a covalent bond with the surrounding Se atoms in both of the two doping structures, which can explain the variations of the structural parameters after V atom is doped into 2H-NbSe 2 . Moreover, what leads to the variation of the electronic structures is that the asymmetric structure and the more energetic Se atoms firstly near the dopant V atom after V is doped into 2H-NbSe 2 in both of the two doping types. Our calculation results can provide good theoretical knowledge for the subsequent experiments.