RAE Chair in Emerging Technologies

Professor of Energy and Sustainability 

Our research

The Reisner laboratory develops new concepts and technologies for the conversion of solar energy and renewable electricity into sustainable fuels and chemicals for a circular economy. Thus, we explore chemical aspects of energy and sustainability, in particular photo- and electrocatalysis and the interface of synthetic chemistry, materials and nano-science, chemical biology and engineering. Central themes of our cross-disciplinary and collaborative approach are the development of processes for the upcycling of plastic and biomass waste as well as the use of carbon dioxide and water to produce green fuels and chemicals for a sustainable future.

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Keywords:  Solar fuels, solar chemicals, artificial photosynthesis, biohybrid materials, water and CO2 splitting, small molecule activation, catalysis, metalloenzymes, microbiology, biomimetic chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry, synthetic chemistry, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, materials Chemistry, nanotechnology, functional and energy materials.

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Publications

Solar Lignin Reforming with Tunable Selectivity Using a Hybrid Photocatalyst in Aqueous Solution.
L Chen, Y Liu, S Mitra, D Kim, Z Huang, DM Vahey, A Bin Mohamad Annuar, E Reisner
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2025)
Reply to: On anisotropy in cubic Cu2O photoelectrodes
L Pan, L Dai, OJ Burton, L Chen, V Andrei, Y Zhang, D Ren, J Cheng, L Wu, K Frohna, A Abfalterer, TC-J Yang, W Niu, M Xia, S Hofmann, PJ Dyson, E Reisner, H Sirringhaus, J Luo, A Hagfeldt, M Grätzel, SD Stranks
Nature
(2025)
646
Semi-artificial leaf interfacing organic semiconductors and enzymes for solar chemical synthesis
CWS Yeung, Y Liu, DM Vahey, SJ Cobb, V Andrei, AM Coito, RR Manuel, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
Joule
(2025)
Covalent Organic Framework and Carbon Nitride Composite for Scalable Solar Reforming.
S Karak, Y Liu, ABM Annuar, E Reisner
Advanced Materials
(2025)
Enzymatic Flow Electrolyzer for CO2 and Waste Comproportionation to Formate and Its Use in Photocatalytic Alkene Hydrocarboxylation.
BQL Low, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, A Rogolino, SJ Cobb, C Han, G Martins, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2025)
Enzymatic Flow Electrolyzer for CO2 and Waste Comproportionation to Formate and Its Use in Photocatalytic Alkene Hydrocarboxylation
BQL Low, S Rodríguez‐Jiménez, A Rogolino, SJ Cobb, C Han, G Martins, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
Angewandte Chemie
(2025)
137
Enzymatic flow electrolyser for the comproportionation of CO2 and organic waste to formate
BQL Low, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, A Rogolino, S Cobb, C Han, G Martins, I Pereira, E reisner
(2025)
Adapting gas fermenting bacteria for light-driven domino valorization of CO 2
L Su, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, MIM Short, E Reisner
Chem Sci
(2025)
16
Semiartificial Photoelectrochemistry for CO2-Mediated Enantioselective Organic Synthesis
T Bouwens, SJ Cobb, CWS Yeung, Y Liu, G Martins, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2025)
147
Photoelectrochemical comproportionation of pre-treated PET plastics and CO2 to formate
Y Liu, CWS Yeung, E Reisner
Energy and Environmental Science
(2025)
18

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