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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 928760, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/928760 Research Article Synthesis and Characterization of CeO2-SiO2 Nanoparticles by Microwave-Assisted Irradiation Method for Photocatalytic Oxidation of Methylene Blue Dye R. M. Mohamed1, 2 and E. S. Aazam1 1 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 2 Advanced Materials Department, Central Metallurgical Resarch and Devolpment Institute CMRDI, P.O. Box 8742, Helwan 11421, Egypt Correspondence should be addressed to R. M. Mohamed, redama123@ Received 12 March 2012; Revised 30 April 2012; Accepted 1 May 2012 Academic Editor: Pengyi Zhang Copyright © 2012 R. M. Mohamed and E. S. Aazam. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CeO2 -SiO2 nanoparticles were synthesized for the first time by a facile microwave-assisted irradiation process. The effect of irradiation time of microwave was studied. The materials were characterized by N2 adsorption, XRD, UV-vis/DR, and TEM. All solids showed mesoporous textures with high surface areas, relatively small pore size diameters, and large pore volume. The X-ray diffraction results indicated that the as-synthesized nanoparticles exhibited cubic CeO2 without impurities and amorphous silica. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images revealed that the particle size of CeO2 -SiO2 nanoparticles, which were prepared by microwave method for 30 min irradiation times, was around 8 nm. The photocatalytic activities were evaluated by th