Reply to the 'Comment on "Two-dimensional penta-like PdPSe with a puckered pentagonal structure: a first-principles study"' by S. Chowdhury, F. Shojaei and B. Mortazavi, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. , 2023, 25 , DOI: 10.1039/D2CP01587K.