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

Interfacial engineering of a carbon nitride-graphene oxide-molecular Ni catalyst hybrid for enhanced photocatalytic activity

H Kasap, R Godin, C Jeay Bizot, DS Achilleos, X Fang, JR Durrant, E Reisner

– ACS Catalysis

(2018)

(DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01969)

Solar Water Splitting with a Hydrogenase Integrated in Photoelectrochemical Tandem Cells.

DH Nam, JZ Zhang, V Andrei, N Kornienko, N Heidary, A Wagner, K Nakanishi, KP Sokol, B Slater, I Zebger, S Hofmann, JC Fontecilla-Camps, CB Park, E Reisner

– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

(2018)

(DOI: 10.1002/anie.201805027)

Catalysis by design: development of a bifunctional water splitting catalyst through an operando measurement directed optimization cycle

N Kornienko, N Heidary, G Cibin, E Reisner

– Chemical Science

(2018)

5322

(DOI: 10.1039/c8sc01415a)

Aerobic Conditions Enhance the Photocatalytic Stability of CdS/CdOx Quantum Dots.

DW Wakerley, KH Ly, N Kornienko, KL Orchard, MF Kuehnel, E Reisner

– Chemistry

(2018)

(DOI: 10.1002/chem.201802353)

La5 Ti2 Cu0.9 Ag0.1 S5 O7 Modified with a Molecular Ni Catalyst for Photoelectrochemical H2 Generation.

TE Rosser, T Hisatomi, S Sun, D Antón-García, T Minegishi, E Reisner, K Domen

– Chemistry

(2018)

(DOI: 10.1002/chem.201801169)

Energy transfer and photoluminescence properties of lanthanide-containing polyoxotitanate cages coordinated by salicylate ligands.

N Li, GS Subramanian, PD Matthews, J Xiao, V Chellappan, TE Rosser, E Reisner, H-K Luo, DS Wright

– Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

(2018)

47,

5679

(DOI: 10.1039/c8dt00825f)

Solar H-2 generation in water with a CuCrO2 photocathode modified with an organic dye and molecular Ni catalyst

CE Creissen, J Warnan, E Reisner

– Chemical Science

(2018)

1439

(DOI: 10.1039/c7sc04476c)

ZnSe quantum dots modified with a Ni(cyclam) catalyst for efficient visible-light driven CO2 reduction in water

MF Kuehnel, CD Sahm, G Neri, JR Lee, KL Orchard, AJ Cowan, E Reisner

– Chemical Science

(2018)

2501

(DOI: 10.1039/c7sc04429a)

Solar hydrogen generation from lignocellulose

MF Kuehnel, E Reisner

– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

(2018)

57,

3290

(DOI: 10.1002/anie.201710133)

Catechol-TiO<inf>2</inf>hybrids for photocatalytic H<inf>2</inf>production and photocathode assembly

KL Orchard, D Hojo, KP Sokol, M-J Chan, N Asao, T Adschiri, E Reisner

– Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

(2017)

53,

12638

(DOI: 10.1039/c7cc05094a)

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