The insights of synergistic effect between chromium oxides and ceria supported on Ti-PILC were studied for NO oxidation. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of chromium oxides and ceria and their synergistic effect in textural properties, redox performance and surface species over the Cri,Cex/TP catalysts. These catalysts were investigated in detail by means of Brunauer-Emmertt-Teller (BET) surface area analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscope (TEM), temperature-programmed reduction of H-2 (H-2-TPR), temperature-programmed desorption (NO-TPD, O-2-TPD), photoluminescence spectra (PL), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (in situ DRIFTS). It has been found that CrO, were beneficial to adsorb and activate NO to form NO+ and then generate nitrates while ceria were inclined to activate O-2 via oxygen vacancies to produce nitrates. Besides, the results of in situ DRIFTS further demonstrated that surface species were associated with not only reaction atmosphere but also reaction temperature. Hence, a possible reaction model was tentatively proposed. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.