Hollow mixed metal oxides have received much attention owing to their great performance for wide potential applications. Here, we have successfully prepared hollow Co− Mo mixed oxide nanostructures with controlled structure and compositions, including hollow Co 3 O 4 /CoMoO 4 heterostructures and ball-in-ball CoMoO 4 nanospheres. Uniform CoMohybrid precursors are prepared through one-pot solvothermal method and then transformed into hollow structures after thermal treatment. Importantly, this strategy can be used to prepare other ternary Mo-based oxides. In view of the unique heterostructure with hollow structure, the Co 3 O 4 /CoMoO 4 heterostructures exhibit much better electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen evolution reaction than CoMoO 4 . Moreover, the as-synthesized carbon-coated Co 3 O 4 /CoMoO 4 nanospheres show excellent lithium storage properties. Our result described here provides a method to fabricate other mixed metal oxides with complicated structure.