Available online A B S T R A C T In this paper, a new kind of sets called Dα-open sets are introduced and studied in a topological spaces. The class of all Dα-open sets is strictly between the class of all α-open sets and g-open sets. Also, as applications we introduce and study Dα-continuous, Dα-open, and Dα-closed functions between topological spaces. Finally, some properties of Dα-closed and strongly Dα-closed graphs are investigated. © 2015 Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Mansoura University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).