[Intro Graphic]: In Ohio State labs, Claudia Turro uses light energy to manipulate molecules and rewrite the rules of photochemistry.

[Claudia Turro, Inorganic Energy Chemist, College of Arts and Sciences]: At one point when I was young, I realized that everything around us was made up of atoms. That was fascinating to me that you could change the properties of the material and just from this one periodic table, you could get everything. The two areas of research in my group, one of them has to do with what we call phototherapy, using light to initiate some therapeutic action, a lot towards cancer. The other area has to do with solar energy conversion. And normally we think of using sunlight to create electricity in photovoltaic systems, but what we're doing is a little bit different in our molecules absorb the photon of light and we're using it to make a fuel. These are new molecules that we make in my lab. I wanted to do something that would be useful for the world, even though it's fundamental research, but I want to have a purpose, right? I come to the university to solve the puzzles. And so, to me, this is just fun, it's not work.

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