This animation is created from our rigorous computer modeling of a titanium nanostructure as it is thermally oxidized to titania; extremely high giga-Pascal strain (tensile stress) is produced by the geometry of the nano-structure before it is consumed. This strain in turn produces the changes to the bandgap structure of our titania photoanode that are so beneficial to producing hydrogen from sunlight and water.

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