Alkali promotion partially bridges a geometry-activation mismatch for N2 at O2-active MoS2 single-atom sites

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<p>This dataset supports a spin-polarized density functional theory study examining whether O₂-activation-favorable active-site environments at Fe- and Co-substituted sulfur vacancies in monolayer MoS₂ can produce a comparable response for H-free N₂ adsorption. Side-on and end-on N₂ adsorption branches were evaluated together with projected density of states and crystal orbital Hamilton population analyses to distinguish coordination geometry, thermodynamic preference, and intramolecular bond weakening. A perpendicular electric field and K/Na co-adsorption were further considered as physical and chemical perturbations. The calculations show that shared side-on coordination does not produce O₂-like N₂ activation, while the thermodynamically preferred end-on branch retains a shorter and stronger N–N bond. Alkali co-adsorption substantially enhances N–N bond weakening but does not eliminate the O₂–N₂ activation gap or reverse the end-on thermodynamic preference. The archive provides the optimized structures, representative computational input and output data, and numerical source data supporting the reported analyses.</p>

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DOI https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:jy-45
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Creator Park, Soon-Dong; Kim, Sung Youb
Publisher Materials Cloud
Contributor Park, Soon-Dong
Publication Year 2026
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Language English
Resource Type info:eu-repo/semantics/other
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Discipline Materials Science and Engineering