A new stable Ti 9 O 10 nanophase (sp. gr. Immm) has been detected by X-ray diffraction (XRD) after high energy ball milling and long-term vacuum annealing of nanocrystalline powder of nonstoichiometric disordered and ordered titanium monoxide TiOy with B1 structure (sp. gr.
Fm3m).With the help of XRD data, the unit cell of the Ti 9 O 10 nanophase as well as the distribution of atoms and structural vacancies in the titanium and oxygen sublattices of this phase have been established. The crystal structure of Ti 9 O 10 is derived from that of TiOy by (a) a migration of the vacancies to the specific crystallographic planes of B1 structure and (b) by orthorhombic distortions. The DFT calculations of the full energy of the coarse-crystalline phases TiOy and Ti 9 O 10 revealed that the bulk ordered phase Ti 9 O 10 is not preferable in comparison with the bulk disordered cubic phase TiOy with the same content of vacancies in the sublattices, so, it is the nanostate that causes the formation of Ti 9 O 10 .