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Professor Erwin Reisner

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.

More information can be found on our group website.

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

Bacteria-photocatalyst sheet for sustainable carbon dioxide utilization (vol 5, pg 633, 2022)
Q Wang, S Kalathil, C Pornrungroj, CD Sahm, E Reisner
– Nature Catalysis
(2022)
1
(DOI: 10.1038/s41929-022-00835-x)
Engineering Electro- and Photocatalytic Carbon Materials for CO2 Reduction by Formate Dehydrogenase.
VM Badiani, C Casadevall, M Miller, SJ Cobb, RR Manuel, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2022)
144,
14207
(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c04529)
Bacteria–photocatalyst sheet for sustainable carbon dioxide utilization
Q Wang, S Kalathil, C Pornrungroj, CD Sahm, E Reisner
– Nature Catalysis
(2022)
5,
633
(DOI: 10.1038/s41929-022-00817-z)
Bridging Plastic Recycling and Organic Catalysis: Photocatalytic Deconstruction of Polystyrene via a C-H Oxidation Pathway
T Li, A Vijeta, C Casadevall, AS Gentleman, T Euser, E Reisner
– ACS Catal
(2022)
12,
8155
(DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c02292)
An Integrated Carbon Nitride‐Nickel Photocatalyst for the Amination of Aryl Halides Using Sodium Azide
A Vijeta, C Casadevall, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie
(2022)
134,
(DOI: 10.1002/ange.202203176)
Long-term solar water and CO2 splitting with photoelectrochemical BiOI-BiVO4 tandems
V Andrei, RA Jagt, M Rahaman, L Lari, VK Lazarov, JL MacManus-Driscoll, RLZ Hoye, E Reisner
– Nature Materials
(2022)
21,
864
(DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01262-w)
Self-Assembled Liposomes Enhance Electron Transfer for Efficient Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction.
S Rodríguez-Jiménez, H Song, E Lam, D Wright, A Pannwitz, SA Bonke, JJ Baumberg, S Bonnet, L Hammarström, E Reisner
– J Am Chem Soc
(2022)
144,
9399
(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c01725)
Spectroelectrochemistry of Water Oxidation Kinetics in Molecularversus Heterogeneous Oxide Iridium Electrocatalysts
C Bozal-Ginesta, RR Rao, CA Mesa, Y Wang, Y Zhao, G Hu, D Antón-García, IEL Stephens, E Reisner, GW Brudvig, D Wang, JR Durrant
– J Am Chem Soc
(2022)
144,
8454
(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02006)
An Integrated Carbon Nitride‐Nickel Photocatalyst for the Amination of Aryl Halides Using Sodium Azide
A Vijeta, C Casadevall, E Reisner
– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2022)
61,
e202203176
(DOI: 10.1002/anie.202203176)
Single-Source Deposition of Mixed-Metal Oxide Films Containing Zirconium and 3d Transition Metals for (Photo)electrocatalytic Water Oxidation
V Riesgo-Gonzalez, S Bhattacharjee, X Dong, DS Hall, V Andrei, AD Bond, CP Grey, E Reisner, DS Wright
– Inorganic Chemistry
(2022)
61,
6223
(DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00403)
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Email address

er376@cam.ac.uk

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