Development of highly active and stable electrocatalysts is a key to realize efficient hydrogen evolution through water electrolysis. Here, the development of a 3D self-supported integrated electrode constituting few layered N, P dual-doped carbon-encapsulated ultrafine MoP nanocrystal/MoP cluster hybrids on carbon cloth (FLNPC@MoP-NC/MoP-C/CC) is demonstrated. Benefiting from novel structural features including fully open and accessible nanoporosity, ultrasmall size of MoP-NCs on MoP-Cs as well as strong synergistic effects of N, P dual-doped carbon layers with MoP-NCs, the FLNPC@ MoP-NC/MoP-C/CC as a 3D self-supported binder-free integrated electrode exhibits extraordinary catalytic activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) with extremely low overpotentials at all pH values ( j = 10 mA cm −2 at η = 74, 106, and 69 mV in 0.5 m H 2 SO 4 , 1.0 m PBS, and 1.0 m KOH electrolytes, respectively). To the best of our knowledge, the ultrahigh electrocatalytic performance represents one of the best MoP-based HER electrocatalysts reported so far. Additionally, few layered N, P dual-doped carbon can effectively prevent MoP-NC/MoP-C from corrosion, making the FLNPC@ MoP-NC/MoP-C/CC exhibit nearly unfading stability after 50 h testing in acidic, neutral, and alkaline media, which shows great promise for electrocatalytic water splitting application.

The construction of a novel 3D self‐supported integrated NixCo2−xP@NC (0 < x < 2) nanowall array (NA) on Ni foam (NF) electrode constituting highly dispersed NixCo2−xP nanoparticles, nanorods, nanocapsules, and nanodendrites embedded in N‐doped carbon (NC) NA grown on NF is reported. Benefiting from the collective effects of special morphological and structural design and electronic structure engineering, the NixCo2−xP@NC NA/NF electrodes exhibit superior electrocatalytic performance for water splitting with an excellent stability in a wide pH range. The optimal NiCoP@NC NA/NF electrode exhibits the best hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity in acidic solution so far, attaining a current density of 10 mA cm−2 at an overpotential of 34 mV. Moreover, the electrode manifests remarkable performances toward both HER and oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline medium with only small overpotentials of 37 mV at 10 mA cm−2 and 305 mV at 50 mA cm−2, respectively. Most importantly, when coupling with the NiCoP@NC NA/NF electrode for overall water splitting, an alkali electrolyzer delivers a current density of 20 mA cm−2 at a very low cell voltage of ≈1.56 V. In addition, the NiCoP@NC NA/NF electrode has outstanding long‐term durability at j = 10 mA cm−2 with a negligible degradation in current density over 22 h in both acidic and alkaline media.

Novel hollow mesoporous @M/CeO(2) (M = Au, Pd, and Au-Pd) nanospheres are created. The nanospheres can be used as effective nanoreactors with superior catalytic activity and stability for reduction of 4-nitrophenol due to their hollow mesoporous structural features.

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This work introduces a novel sandwich-like structured nanocatalyst, which shows a large specifi c surface area, good dispersity and enhanced synergistic eff ects between CeO 2 and noble metals. This synthetic strategy is an eff ective method for the preparation of highly effi cient sandwich-like mesoporous catalysts.We report the creation of highly efficient sandwich-like structured nanocatalysts consisting of magnetic Fe 3 O 4 cores, porous SiO 2 and CeO 2 shells and coated with noble metal nanoparticles (NMNPs). The nanocatalysts possess uniform sizes, variable shell compositions and thicknesses, adjustable noble metal nanoparticle coatings, tunable morphologies and good structural stability, and can be used as unique catalysts with extremely high catalytic activity and stability for the 4-nitrophenol reduction reaction due to their structural features with multiple interactions and strong synergistic effects between the noble metal nanoparticles and the cerium oxide shells. The designed double shelled Fe 3 O 4 @SiO 2 @CeO 2 /M nanocatalysts can be used as novel catalyst systems with highly efficient catalytic performance for various catalytic reactions depending on their shell components and noble nanoparticle coating. The synthetic strategy provides a new methodology to design high-performance and recyclable nanocatalysts.