Metal oxides and their nanostructures have emerged as an important class of materials with a rich spectrum of properties and great potential for device applications. In this book, contributions from leading experts  emphasize basic physical properties, synthesis and processing, and the latest applications in such areas as energy and data storage.

Metal oxides and particularly their nanostructures have emerged as animportant class of materials with a rich spectrum of properties and greatpotential for device applications. In this book, contributions from leadingexperts emphasize basic physical properties, synthesis and processing, and thelatest applications in such areas as energy, catalysis and data storage.  Functional Metal Oxide Nanostructuresis an essential reference for any materials scientist or engineer with aninterest in metal oxides, and particularly in recent progress in defectphysics, strain effects, solution-based synthesis, ionic conduction, and theirapplications.

Preface.- 1.  New Opportunities on Phase Transitions of Correlated Electron Nanostructures.- 2.  Controlling the Conductivity in Oxide Semiconductors.- 3.  The Role of Defects in Functional Oxide Nanostructures.- 4.  Emergent Metal-Insulator Transitions Associated with Electronic Inhomogeneities in Low-Dimensional Complex Oxides.- 5.  Optical Properties of Nanoscale Transition Metal Oxides.- 6.  Electronic Properties of Post-Transition Metal Oxide Semiconductor Surfaces.- 7.  In Search of a Truly Two-Dimensional Metallic Oxide.- 8.  Solution Phase Approach to TiO₂ Nanostructures.- 9.  Oxide-Based Photonic Crystals from Biological Templates.- 10.  Low-Dimensionality and Epitaxial Stabilization in Metal Supported Oxide Nanostructures: Mn_xO_y on Pd(100).- 11.  One Dimensional Oxygen-Deficient Metal Oxides.- 12.  Oxide Nanostructures for Energy Storage.- 13.  Metal Oxide Resistive Switching Memory.- 14.  Nano Metal Oxides for Li-Ion Batteries.