Upon various investigations conducted in search for a
nanosensor
material with the best sensing performance, the need to explore these
materials cannot be overemphasized as materials associated with best
sensing attributes are of vast interest to researchers. Hence, there
is a need to investigate the adsorption performances of various metal-doped
fullerene surfaces: C
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Au, C
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Hf, C
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Hg, C
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Ir, C
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Os, C
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Pt, C
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Re, and C
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W on thiourea [SC(NH
2
)
2
] molecule using first-principles density functional theory computation.
Comparative adsorption study has been carried out on various adsorption
models of four functionals, M06-2X, M062X-D3, PBE0-D3, and ωB97XD,
and two double-hybrid (DH) functionals, DSDPBEP86 and PBE0DH, as reference
at Gen/def2svp/LanL2DZ. The visual study of weak interactions such
as quantum theory of atoms in molecule analysis and noncovalent interaction
analysis has been invoked to ascertain these results, and hence we
arrived at a conclusive scientific report. In all cases, the weak
adsorption observed is best described as physisorption phenomena,
and CH
4
N
2
S@C
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Pt complex exhibits
better sensing attributes than its studied counterparts in the interactions
between thiourea molecule and transition metal-doped fullerene surfaces.
Also, in the comparative adsorption study, DH density functionals
show better performance in estimating the adsorption energies due
to their reduced mean absolute deviation (MAD) and root-mean-square
deviation (RMSD) values of (MAD = 1.0305, RMSD = 1.6277) and (MAD
= 0.9965, RMSD = 1.6101) in DSDPBEP86 and PBE0DH, respectively.