ABSTRACT

Chin-Hung Liu, Te-Chien Hou, and Yu-Lun Chueh Department of Materials Science and Engineering National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, People’s Republic of China ylchueh@mx.nthu.edu.tw

recently [6-7]. Scientists and engineers are eager to develop novel approaches for synthesizing various nanomaterials with extraordinary properties. Therefore, this chapter is set to mainly discuss nanomaterials, including metallic silicide and functional metal oxide nanowires (NWs), for their physical properties as well as their novel applications.