A series of Ce
xTi
1-xO
2 mixed oxide materials was synthesized by a sol-gel method with
xvarying from 0.1 to 0.9 and characterized by XRD, Raman, and TPR techniques. The structureof the mixed oxides changes with the Ce/Ti ratio. When the
x value is decreased from 1.0 to0.6 for Ce
xTi
1-xO
2, only a cubic phase is detected, and the lattice parameter of the cubicphase decreases because of the formation of a solid solution by substituting Ti atoms into aCeO
2 lattice. When
x = 0.3, a new phase is observed. The structure of this new phase wascharacterized by Rietveld refinement of X-ray diffraction data. This mixed oxide adopts themonoclinic symmetry with the space group
C2/
m and
a = 0.9811(8) nm,
b = 0.3726(3) nm,
c = 0.6831(6) nm, and
= 118.84
. When
x = 0.4 and 0.5, a mixed phase region is detected.The addition of Ti atoms into CeO
2 significantly improves the storage capacity of mobileoxygen of CeO
2 by increasing the reduction extent of the mixed oxides. When
x = 0.3-0.6,the valence value of Ce after a TPR run is estimated to be close to +3, which obviously issmaller than that for reduced CeO
2 alone. The Ce
0.5Ti
0.5O
2 sample shows the highest capacityof storage oxygen among Ce
xTi
1-xO
2 mixed oxides. The capacity for reoxidation of the reducedCeO
2-rich solid solution is higher than that of CeO
2-lean mixed oxides. Ce
xTi
1-xO
2 mixedoxides are promising materials for oxygen storage as well as catalysts for many reactionsinvolving oxygen, such as the catalysts for a three-way reaction to reduce the pollutantemissions or combustion of volatile organic compounds.