1. An introduction of controlled sizes and shapes of nanostructured materials and their applications / Tai-Feng Hung and Ru-Shi Liu -- 2. Spatial separation of reaction sites on rutile TiO2 nanorod by exposing crystal faces and development of visible light responsive rutile TiO2 nanorod / Teruhisa Ohno and Naoya Murakami -- 3. Controlled shaping TiO2 for efficient photocatalysis / Gang Liu and Hui-Ming Cheng -- 4. Shape and particle size controlled for water splitting / Hao Ming Chen and Ru-Shi Liu -- 5. Characterization of TiO2 nanoparticles cytotoxicity / Laurent Le Guyader and Chunying Chen -- 6. Functionalized porous materials as drug carriers / Jun Lin and Shanshan Huang -- 7. Shape and size selective synthesis of gold nanostructures for biomedical applications / Baginskiy Ivan and Ru-Shi Liu -- 8. Shape-controlled synthesis of nanocrystals and their facet-dependent properties / Michael H. Huang -- 9. Size- and shape-controlled hybrid inorganic nanomaterials and application for low- temperature CO oxidation / Thanh-Dinh Nguyen and Trong-On Do -- 10. Shape-controlled synthesis of metal oxide nanocrystals / Cao Thang Dinh ... [et al.] -- 11. Self-assembly : a novel way to fabricate nanomaterials / Zhiyong Tang and Zhening Zhu -- 12. shape-controlled synthesis of platinum nanostructures as electrocatalyst for PEM fuel cell applications / Shuhui Sun and Xueliang Sun -- 13. Controlled particle size and shape of nanomaterials and their applications in supercapacitors / Zubiao Wen ... [et al.] -- 14. Nano/composite materials for lithium-ion batteries / Shu-Lei Chou ... [et al.] -- 15. Controlled size and shape of graphene and its application in li-ion battery / Bei Wang, Ali Reza Ranjbartoreh and Guoxiu Wang -- 16. Controlled growth of quantum dots and their application as wavelength converters for LEDs / Byoung-Hwa Kwon ... [et al.] -- 17. Artificial nanostructures with controlled sizes and shapes for field emission displays / Chaoyang Li and Akimitsu Hatta.