ABSTRACT
Inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) with well-deϐined geometries exhibiting unique size-and shape-dependent phenomena are of huge interest for a wide range of applications. Among all the functional materials designed at the nanoscale, metal oxides and mixed metal oxides are particularly attractive candidates from a scientiϐic as well as technological point of view. The unique characteristics of metal oxides structured at the nanoscale make them the most diverse class of materials, with properties covering almost all of the aspects of materials science and solid state physics. Given that new metal oxide nanomaterials are reported almost on a daily basis, considerable synthetic developments, for scalable and morphological control of metal oxide nanoparticles, remain to be done to fully exploit this family of compounds for further innovative nano-applications.
