Front Cover -- Metal Oxide-Carbon Hybrid Materials -- The Metal Oxides Book Series Edited by Ghenadii Korotcenkov -- Forthcoming titles -- Published titles -- Metal Oxide-Carbon Hybrid Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Volume editor biographies -- Series editor biography -- Preface to the volume -- Preface to the series -- 1 -- Metal oxide-carbon hybrid materials: Synthesis and properties -- 1 -- Physical and chemical aspects of metal oxide-carbon composites -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Materials in the nanoscale