In the search for reliable methods to prepare versatile inorganic nanobuilding blocks or their precursors, controlled precipitation synthesis offers multiple possibilities. On recent years, well established precipitation procedures based on the homogenous alkalinization known as urea method gained attention. This route successfully lead to a variety of highly controlled Ce(III)-Rare earth(III) multicationic based basic carbonates, versatile precursors to prepare functional Ce(IV)-RE(III) based mixed oxides. Along this presentation two cases will be described and discussed. Firstly, the preparation of nanotextured precursors to obtain Ce(IV)-RE(III) oxidic nanoparticles of tuneable luminescent properties. Secondly, the preparation of thermodynamically stable crystalline precursors to the high yield nanotextured Ce(III-IV)-RE(III) oxidic nanoparticles with catalytic properties.
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