The nanocrystallite growth of TiO 2 surface modification with 9mol% ZnO prepared by a coprecipitation process has been studied. Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), selected area electron diffraction (SAED) and UV–VIS–NIR spectrophotometry have been utilized to characterize the TiO 2 nanocrystallites surface modification with 9mol% ZnO (denoted by T-9Z). The DTA result shows that the anatase TiO 2 first formed at 533K and the completion of anatase TiO 2 crystallization occurred at 745K for the T-9Z freeze-dried precursor powders. XRD results reveal that the anatase and rutile TiO 2 coexist when the T-9Z freeze-dried precursor powders were calcined at 523–973K for 2h. When the T-9Z freeze-dried precursor powders were calcined at 973K for 2h, rutile TiO 2 was the major phase, and the minor phases were anatase TiO 2 and Zn 2 Ti 3 O 8 . The phase was composed of the rutile TiO 2 and Zn 2 TiO 4 for the T-9Z freeze-dried precursor powders after calcination at 1273K for 2h. The growth kinetics of TiO 2 nanocrystallites in T-9Z powders were described as: DA,92=2.42×105×exp(-39.9×103/RT)and DR,92=8.49×105×exp(-47.6×103/RT) for anatase and rutile TiO 2 nanocrystallites respectively. The analysis results of UV/VIS/NIR spectra reveal that the T-9Z freeze-dried precursor powders after calcination have a red-shifted effect with increasing calcination temperature and can be used as a UVA-attenuating agent.