Strong Metal‐Support Interactions through Sulfur‐Anchoring of Metal Catalysts on Carbon Supports

Abstract In supported metal catalysts, the supports would strongly interact with the metal components instead of just acting as a carrier, which greatly affects both of their synthesis and catalytic activity, selectivity, and stability. Carbon is considered as very important but inert support and thus hard to induce strong metal‐support interaction (SMSI). This mini‐review highlights that sulfur—a documented poison reagent for metal catalysts—when doped in a carbon supports can induce diverse SMSI phenomenon, including electronic metal‐support interaction (EMSI), classic SMSI, and reactive metal‐support interaction (RMSI). These SMSI between metal and sulfur‐doped carbon (S−C) supports enables the catalysts with extraordinary resistance to sintering at high temperatures of up to 1100 °C, which allows the general synthesis of single‐atom, alloy cluster, and intermetallic compound catalysts with high dispersion and metal loading for a variety of applications.