“…Therefore, it is much more appealing to develop facile and effective strategies to obtain earthabundant phosphates alternatives to the state-of-art precious group metal-based electrocatalysts, thereby directly reducing costs and improving the water splitting efficiency. Among these currently reported strategies, the heteroatom doping into the electrocatalysts is proven for boosting electrocatalytic performance [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] including cationic doping (such as Fe, Ni, Co) [2,17,18] and anionic doping (such as N, C, F, P and S) [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] because they could regulate the electronic structure, improve electrical conductivity, bringing in rich-defects and increase their active sites, above all, the aliovalent anion substitution could optimize the adsorption of intermediates, thus, driving high current-density at low overpotential and enhancing their electrocatalytic performance. For example, Huang et al reported N-doped carbon shelled bimetallic phosphates (Fe x Co y P 2 O 7 @NÀ C) which exhibited high activity and stability for overall water splitting.…”