The invention is suitable for the technical field of OER catalysts, and provides a preparation method of a
nanowire array composed of a
ferrocobalt-based heterostructure, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: pretreating a foamed
nickel substrate; performing in-situ growth of a precursor CoFe-LDH
nanosheet on the NF through a hydrothermal method; and synthesizing the
nanowire array composed of the
ferrocobalt-based heterostructure: putting a precursor into a
muffle furnace, heating, keeping the temperature so that the precursor is thoroughly converted into a Co-Fe-O intermediate, immersing NF on which the intermediate grows into a
polytetrafluoroethylene reaction kettle lining, carrying out a
hydrothermal reaction, and naturally cooling to the
room temperature to obtain a Co9S8-Fe3O4 / VNF
composite material (the vulcanized NF is abbreviated as VNF), so that the
nanowire array composed of the
ferrocobalt-based heterostructure and the Co9S8-Fe3O4 / VNF
composite material is obtained. The
nanowire array is composed of a ferrocobalt-based heterostructure. The invention further provides a
nanowire array composed of the ferrocobalt-based heterostructure and application of the
nanowire array in preparation of a
working electrode of an
oxygen evolution reaction catalyst. According to the heterostructure catalyst provided by the invention, the adsorption strength of an OER intermediate can be optimized to realize high intrinsic OER activity, and efficient and stable water
decomposition is realized.