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.
Authors
- Wenli Bao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5443-4347)
- Aiguo Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5938-1114)
- Junfeng Rong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2717-3086)
- Xikang Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6457-1717)
- Donghai Mei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0286-4182)
- Ding Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3341-2998)
- Lufan Zheng
- Guirong Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1803-153X)
- Xinyu Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2648-6071)
- Xiao Ren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2456-8138)
- Hong Zhao
- Mingzan Bai
- Dongli Chen
- Guodong Si
- Lin Guo
Institutions
- 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)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2026-10-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.4211333
- Primary Topic
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Type
- article
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