SiO2 coating layers were uniformly anchored at the surfaces of sandblasted/pre-oxidized commercially pure titanium (CP-Ti) substrates by the chemical deposition method using Na2SiO3 as the SiO2 precursor at the pH values of 8-10 with the Na2SiO3 concentrations of 0.05-0.5 mol/L. The SiO2 coating layers were composed of small-sized SiO2 nanoparticles with the average particle sizes ranging from 18.0 to 20.5 nm. After firing porcelain (Ti-22) on SiO2-coated sandblasted/pre-oxidized CP-Ti substrates, the bond strengths of CP-Ti and porcelain ranged from 33.56 to 40.43 MPa, which were detected by the three-point flexure bend test method. In the absence of SiO2 interlayer, the bond strength of sandblasted/pre-oxidized CP-Ti and porcelain was 25.6 MPa. The bond strengths in the presence of SiO2 interlayer were higher than that in the absence of SiO2 interlayer. On the other hand, when the CP-Ti substrates were only treated by hydrochloric acid pickling, the bond strengths of SiO2-coated acid-pickled CP-Ti and porcelain ranged from 12.99 to 16.59 MPa. The chemical interaction between the SiO2 interlayers and the oxidized CP-Ti surfaces probably played an important role in increasing the bond strength of CP-Ti and porcelain. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.