The invention relates to a class of metal oxide materials with a special microstructure, and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of materials. A purpose of the present invention isto solve the problem of large-scale and low-cost production of high-performance metal oxides for energy storage and catalysis. According to the present invention, a multi-component metal oxide AxMyOz(A represents one or a plurality of elements selected from elements with strong metallicity, M represents one or a plurality of elements selected from transition metal elements or germanium, antimony,indium and other elements with weak metallicity, and O represents oxygen) is used as a raw material, and is subjected to A site element removing through etching with an acidic solution (an aqueous solution or organic solution with a pH value of less than 7) to prepare the metal oxide material, wherein a variety of microstructures such as an amorphous porous material, a mono-dispersed nano-crystalmaterial, a self-assembled nanometer hairball-like material, a porous nano-crystal material, a hollow material, a core-shell structure material and the like can be obtained by controlling experimental conditions. According to the present invention, the method is simple and effective, and does not require complicated post-treatment process, and the product can be widely used in the fields of industrial reaction catalysts or catalyst carriers and new energy.