Sulfur Clusters Anchored on Carbon Enables High‐Loading, Low‐Coordination Noble Metal Cluster Catalysts for Electrocatalysis

ABSTRACT A rational catalyst design demands a versatile platform integrating high intrinsic activity, optimal atomic utilization, high loading, and stability. We report an ultra‐stable three‐dimensional sulfur cluster anchored on a carbon scaffold, which forms a multi‐directional anchoring network for noble metals, effectively overcoming the inherent short‐range limitation of strong metal‐support interactions. A 40 wt% Platinum cluster catalyst with cluster size of over 1.5 nm and an average Pt–Pt coordination number of ∼3 was successfully fabricated. The resulting Pt/SCC achieved an overpotential of only 3.9 mV at 10 mA/cm 2 with a mass activity (MA) of 17.5 A/mg Pt in 0.5 M H 2 SO 4 , and requires just 9.9 mV at 10 mA/cm 2 and a MA of 0.47 A/mg Pt in 1.0 M KOH. It also shows super durability with marginal loss in activity after 100 000 cyclic voltammetry cycles in both conditions. Pt/SCC delivers exceptional atomic utilization, slashing electrolyzer Pt loading by >50% without compromising long‐term durability.

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Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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2026-10-15
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https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.4211333
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Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
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ABSTRACT A rational catalyst design demands a versatile platform integrating high intrinsic activity, optimal atomic utilization, high loading, and stability. We report an ultra‐stable three‐dimensional sulfur cluster anchored on a carbon scaffold, which forms a multi‐directional anchoring network for noble metals, effectively overcoming the inherent short‐range limitation of strong metal‐support interactions. A 40 wt% Platinum cluster catalyst with cluster size of over 1.5 nm and an average Pt–Pt coordination number of ∼3 was successfully fabricated. The resulting Pt/SCC achieved an overpotential of only 3.9 mV at 10 mA/cm 2 with a mass activity (MA) of 17.5 A/mg Pt in 0.5 M H 2 SO 4 , and requires just 9.9 mV at 10 mA/cm 2 and a MA of 0.47 A/mg Pt in 1.0 M KOH. It also shows super durability with marginal loss in activity after 100 000 cyclic voltammetry cycles in both conditions. Pt/SCC delivers exceptional atomic utilization, slashing electrolyzer Pt loading by >50% without compromising long‐term durability.

Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Sinopec (China) (CN), Xiamen University (CN), Tiangong University (CN), Changzhou Institute of Technology (CN), Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (CN), Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (CN)
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