Li-doped Beryllonitrene for Enhanced Carbon Dioxide Capture

TL;DR

This study uses first-principles calculations to show that lithium doping significantly enhances beryllonitrene's ability to adsorb carbon dioxide, making it a promising material for CO2 capture.

Contribution

It demonstrates that Li-doping improves beryllonitrene's CO2 adsorption capacity, providing a new approach for designing effective carbon capture materials.

Findings

Pristine beryllonitrene has weak CO2 adsorption (-0.046 eV).

Li-doped beryllonitrene exhibits much stronger CO2 adsorption (-0.408 eV).

Li-doping alters electronic properties, indicating strong CO2 interaction.

Abstract

In recent years, the scientific community has given more and more attention to the issue of climate change and global warming, which is largely attributed to the massive quantity of carbon dioxide emissions. Thus, the demand for a carbon dioxide capture material is massive and continuously increasing. In this study, we perform first-principle calculations based on density functional theory to investigate the carbon dioxide capture ability of pristine and doped beryllonitrene. Our results show that carbon dioxide had an adsorption energy of -0.046 eV on pristine beryllonitrene, so it appears that beryllonitrene has extremely weak carbon dioxide adsorption ability. Pristine beryllonitrene could be effectively doped with Lithium atoms, and the resulting Li-doped beryllonitrene had much stronger interactions with carbon dioxide than pristine beryllonitrene. The adsorption energy for carbon dioxide on Li-doped beryllonitrene was -0.408 eV. The adsorption of carbon dioxide on Li-doped beryllonitrene greatly changed the charge density, projected density of states, and band structure of the material, demonstrating that it was strongly adsorbed. This suggests that Li-doping is a viable way to enhance the carbon dioxide capture ability of beryllonitrene and makes it a possible candidate for an effective CO$_2$ capture material.