The nanostructures of transition metal oxides have gained considerable attention for energy storage devices as they can deliver high levels of electrical power and offer long operating lifetimes, but their specific capacitance is too low for many important applications. The poor conductivity of metal oxides limits the charge/discharge rate for high energy/power densities and the specific capacitance severely decreases under high current. In this book we proposed a simple and an efficient method to improve the conductivity of metal oxide nanowires based electrodes by interweaving nanowires...

New chemical synthetic route for the fabrication of metal oxide nanostructures and their structural, optical, electrical and electrochemical properties are presented. Chemical solution deposition method was used to control the phase and crytallinity by varying the growth temperature and time. Detailed characterizations of the crystal structure, chemical composition, and morphology of the as-synthesized products were carried out using adequate techniques. The mechanism governing the direct growth of oxide nanostructures on conducting and insulating substrates is studied. Field emission,...