Multifunctional nano-structured materials with novel properties have received enormous attention from the entire world, which largely depend on their precise tailored structures and chemical compositions. In this talk, various carbon and spinel-structured materials with controlled fabrications and green conversions and solar harvesting and beyond are initially reviewed, the composition and structure of spinels will be briefly introduced and illustrated. Secondly, some of the recent advances in the preparation and characterization of multifunctional spinles-derived nano-structured materials are accordingly summarized, and new strategies are specifically highlighted. The physico-chemical characteristics of multifunctional spinels-derived nano-structured materials such as their interfacial structures, various morphologies and derived defects have been rationally regulated through various approaches, which could incur them with improved catalytic conversion to fine chemicals and energetic utilization as well as conversion shall also be discussed in terms of the tailored surface-interface structures of the afore-mentioned spinels-derived nanocomposite materials.
