This book offers a unique combination of fundamentals and selected key applications for metal oxide nanomaterials, ranging from their preparation up to the mastering of their characteristics in an interdisciplinary view. The volume provides introductory concepts encompassing experimental and theoretical aspects related to material design through vapor- and liquid-phase approaches, addressing various aspects currently under way from preparation, to theoretical research, up to a broad scenario of advanced technological utilizations. It illustrates various key issues for the understanding and real-world end-uses of the most important class of inorganic materials, elucidating the interplay between their design, preparation, chemico-physical characterization and functional behavior in selected fields. It summarizes the existing up-to-date work and knowledge on metal oxide nanomaterials, of key importance from both a fundamental and an applicative point of view for eventual safety, sustainability and energy end-uses.weiterlesen