NOVELTY - Fabrication (M1) of an article comprising at least one metal oxide involves: hydrolyzing at least one silicone derivative.    USE - For fabricating an article comprising at least one metal oxide (claimed); e.g. transparent conductive oxides (TCO) which are electronic materials used in a large variety of optoelectronic devices e.g. flat panel displays, liquid crystal displays, plasma displays, electroluminescent displays, touch panels and solar cells; as antistatic coatings and electro-magnetic interference (EMI) shielding; in organic electroluminescent devices (both displays and lighting devices), photovoltaic (PV) devices, e.g. crystalline-Si heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer, amorphous silicon, CdTe, Culn(Ga)Se2 (CIGS), and photovoltaics; as transparent conducting windows, structural templates, and diffusion barriers and for various optical coatings e.g. infra-red reflecting coatings (heat mirrors) in automotive and building industries; for producing thin film on a substrate; for producing transparent semiconductors and electrodes, sensors, high refractive index surfaces, such as windows, optics, ceramics, elements with non-linear optical properties, anti-reflective coatings, self-cleaning windows, elements with catalytic properties for NOx reduction and/or removing sulfur from oil and fuels, protective coatings, anti-corrosion coatings, anti-static coatings, and barrier coatings for excluding organics, moisture, or gases; for fabricating transparent electrodes for photovoltaic devices, flat panel displays, touch panels, organic light-emitting diode device (OLEDs), gradient refractive index layers in light emitting diode (LED) lamps and OLEDs, hole plugging in solid state fuel cell blocks, binding preformed metal oxide powders, such as titania reflective coatings, and dye sensitized solar cells.    ADVANTAGE - The method is a versatile, flexible, low temperature, low cost wet method for fabrication of a wide variety of TCOs is desirable; not only allow reduced TCO cost and fabrication of flexible devices, but also TCOs with properties, resulting in improved device efficiency; uses relatively inexpensive starting materials, relatively low process temperatures, low process cost, high quality film formation, ability to fabricate multicomponent films, applicability to a variety of substrates because of good wetting properties of the compounds (I), printability, exact control of component stoichiometry, and easy tunability of process parameters and material properties; provides articles that include metal oxide coatings, particularly articles that include conductive or semiconductive metal oxide coatings, particularly thin film coatings which, depending on the nature of metal oxide, have high refractive index, high catalytic/photocatalytic activity, electrically conductive or semiconductive properties, non-linear optical properties, switching properties, barrier properties, and/or binding properties.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Fabrication (M1) of an article comprising at least one metal oxide involves: hydrolyzing at least one silicone derivative of formula Xq-M1-(O-Si(R1)(R5)-O-(Si(R2)(R6)-O)m-Si(R3)(R7)-R4)n (I).    M1=Mg, Al, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, As, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Tc, Ru, Rh, Pd, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, La, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Th, U, or Pu;    X=O1/2 or OR;    R=alkyl;    R1-R7=H, alkoxy, 1-10C alkyl, phenyl or R11-Si(R12)(R13)-O-(Si(R14)(R15)-O)p-;    R10-R15=H, 1-10C alkyl or phenyl;    n=the oxidation state of M1 minus q;    m,p=0-5;    q=0-4.    Provided that when q is 1, then X is OR; and when q is 2, then X is O1/2 and M1 is Ti, V, Mn, Nb, Mo, Tc, Ru, Sb, Ta, W, Re, Os, Th, or U; and when q is 4, then X is O1/2, and M1 is Cr, Mo, W, Ru, Re, Os, U, or Pu.