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: MnxOy 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.

Metal oxides and particularly 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, catalysis and data storage.  Functional Metal Oxide Nanostructures is an essential reference for any materials scientist or engineer with an interest in metal oxides, and particularly in recent progress in defect physics, strain effects, solution-based synthesis, ionic conduction, and their applications. Addresses a hot area of electronic and magnetic materials Covers basic properties, synthesis, processing, and applications Focuses on nanoscale aspects of metal oxides Presents both recently developed theories and state-of-the-art applications.