MOF‐Derived Bifunctional Cu 3 P Nanoparticles Coated by a N,P‐Codoped Carbon Shell for Hydrogen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction

Abstract Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently emerged as a type of uniformly and periodically atom‐distributed precursor and efficient self‐sacrificial template to fabricate hierarchical porous‐carbon‐related nanostructured functional materials. For the first time, a Cu‐based MOF, i.e., Cu‐NPMOF is used, whose linkers contain nitrogen and phosphorus heteroatoms, as a single precursor and template to prepare novel Cu 3 P nanoparticles (NPs) coated by a N,P‐codoped carbon shell that is extended to a hierarchical porous carbon matrix with identical uniform N and P doping (termed Cu 3 P@NPPC) as an electrocatalyst. Cu 3 P@NPPC demonstrates outstanding activity for both the hydrogen evolution and oxygen…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 21671175, 21371153
• ZU
  Zhengzhou University