Direct growth of ternary Ni–Fe–P porous nanorods onto nickel foam as a highly active, robust bi-functional electrocatalyst for overall water splitting

To date, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as a new platform to endow electrocatalysts with multi-scale architectures. Herein, we report a universal MOF-based post-treatment strategy to produce carbon-incorporated ternary Ni-Fe-P porous nanorods grown onto nickel foam directly as a non-precious-metal bifunctional electrocatalyst.