Abstract: | It is challenging to find a method to obtain a catalyst with low cost and efficient multifunctional performances. Herein, in order to obtain the electrode with high-performance water splitting and non-enzymatic glucose detection, the commercial graphite sheet (GS) with excellent durability and electroconductivity was used as substrate material, and the non-noble ternary component Ni–Co–P catalyst with hierarchical architecture was fabricated on GS via a co-electrodeposition. The catalyst only required low overpotentials of 44.6, 76.5 and 49 mV to drive the current density of 10 mA cm?2 alongside with the smaller Tafel slopes of 39.2, 44.8 and 112 mV dec?1 for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in 1.0 M KOH, 0.5 M H2SO4 and 1.0 M PBS solution, respectively. For oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the catalyst demonstrated a low overpotential of 304 mV to achieve the current density of 20 mA cm?2 with excellent Tafel slope of 89.8 mV dec?1 in alkaline solution. Furthermore, the Ni–Co–P/GS electrode serving as non-enzymatic glucose sensor exhibited the superior electrocatalytic activity with an ultrahigh sensitivity of 7400 μA mM?1 cm?2, low detection limit of 0.425 μM (S/N = 3), and wide linear range (1–1200 μM). |