Transition metal dichalcogenides and hybrids for electrochemical sensing

Transition metal dichalcogenides are useful for both industrial materials and scientific research. This chapter emphasizes the theoretical and experimental methods that can be applied to sensing applications. The sensing characteristics of the TMDCs are influenced by sensing parameters such adsorption configuration, adsorption site, charge transfer, etc. The sensing behavior of TMDCs is governed by the influence of energy cut-off values, k-points, and exchange-correlation functional. The sensing properties of TMDCs are computationally expensive and can be computed using highly advanced theoretical methods to obtain correct results. The use of high-speed, large-memory supercomputers will be beneficial in the future to obtain precise TMD sensing properties. The remarkable experimental electrochemical performance of TMDCs led to its incorporation in second-generation glucose biosensors.