The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of vacancy defect in Ti2CO2 MXene and the effect of strain have been investigated using the density functional tight-binding (DFTB) approach including spin-polarization with Hubbard onsite correction (DFTB + U). The band gap of pure Ti2CO2 is ∼1.3 eV, which decreases to ∼0.4 and ∼1.1 eV in the case of C- and O-vacancies, respectively, i.e., the semiconducting behavior is retained. In contrast, Ti2CO2 undergoes semiconductor-to-metal transition by the introduction of a single Ti-vacancy. This transition is the result of introduced localized states in the vicinity of the Fermi level by the vacancy. Both Ti- and O-vacancies have zero net magnetic moments. Interestingly, the nonmagnetic (NM) ground state of semiconducting Ti2CO2 turns into a magnetic semiconductor by introducing a C-vacancy with a magnetization of ∼2 μB/cell. Furthermore, we studied the effect of strain on the electronic structure and magnetic properties of Ti-, C-, and O-vacant Ti2CO2. The nature of the band gap in the presence of single O-vacancy remains indirect in both compression and tensile strain, and the size of the band gap decreases. Compression strain on Ti-vacant Ti2CO2 changes metal into a direct semiconductor, and the metallic character remains under tensile biaxial strain. In opposition, a semiconductor-to-metal transition occurs by applying a compressive biaxial strain on C-vacant Ti2CO2. We also find that the magnetism is preserved under tensile strain and suppressed under compression strain on VC-Ti2CO2. Moreover, we show that double C-vacancies maintain magnetism. Our findings provide important characteristics for the application of the most frequent MXene material and should motivate further investigations because experimentally achieved MXenes always contain point defects.

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