Professor Erwin Reisner

We are interested in artificial photosynthesis and solar fuels and develop novel photocatalytic systems by combining homogenous synthetic catalysts and enzymes with a light absorbing nanostructured semiconductor. A current focus lies on the sunlight-driven production of the high specific energy carrier hydrogen and the selective conversion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and formic acid. Our cross-disciplinary laboratory covers a wide range of disciplines, from Synthetic Molecular and Materials Chemistry to Biological Chemistry combined with Electro-, Photochemistry and Nanoscience.

More information can be found at our group website: http://www-reisner.ch.cam.ac.uk

Keywords: Solar fuels, artificial photosynthesis, Water and CO₂ splitting, Small Molecule Activation, Catalysis, Metalloenzymes, Biomimetic Chemistry, Bio-inorganic Chemistry Synthetic Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Photoelectrochemistry, Materials Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Functional and Energy Materials.

Publications

Visible-Light Flow Reactor Packed with Porous Carbon Nitride for Aerobic Substrate Oxidations

MA Bajada, A Vijeta, A Savateev, G Zhang, D Howe, E Reisner

– ACS applied materials & interfaces

(2020)

acsami.9b19718

(DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b19718)

Bias-free solar syngas production by integrating a molecular cobalt catalyst with perovskite–BiVO₄ tandems

V Andrei, B Reuillard, E Reisner

– Nature Materials

(2020)

19,

189

(DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0501-6)

Integration of a Hydrogenase in a Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrode for Tandem Solar Water Splitting.

E Edwardes Moore, V Andrei, S Zacarias, IAC Pereira, E Reisner

– ACS Energy Letters

(2020)

232

(DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b02437)

Host-Guest Chemistry Meets Electrocatalysis: Cucurbit[6]uril on a Au Surface as a Hybrid System in CO2 Reduction

A Wagner, KH Ly, N Heidary, I Szabó, T Földes, KI Assaf, SJ Barrow, K Sokołowski, M Al-Hada, N Kornienko, MF Kuehnel, E Rosta, I Zebger, WM Nau, OA Scherman, E Reisner

– ACS Catal

(2020)

10,

751

(DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b04221)

Carbon nitride as a heterogeneous visible-light photocatalyst for the Minisci reaction and coupling to H 2 production

A Vijeta, E Reisner

– Chemical Communications

(2019)

55,

14007

(DOI: 10.1039/c9cc07348e)