The purpose of obtaining advanced materials into new configurations led to the development of strategies to surface decorated is to give unique functionality to this novel material. In general, these decorated materials have an open-shell structure, which can be understood as an intermediary for obtaining a core-shell structures. In this way, a chemical group capable of undergoing successive reactions is added to the surface, leading to a heterostructure. Examples of the conventional and unconventional hydro(solvo)thermal growth of decorated materials are summarised in Table .