The study of cost-efficient and high-performance electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has attracted much attention. Here, porous microrod arrays constructed by carbon-confined NiCo@NiCoO2 core@shell nanoparticles (NiCo@NiCoO2/C PMRAs) are fabricated by the reductive carbonization of bimetallic (Ni, Co) metal–organic framework microrod arrays (denoted as NiCo-MOF MRAs) and subsequent controlled oxidative calcination. They successfully combine the desired merits including large specific surface areas, high conductivity, and multi...