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Professor Erwin Reisner

Royal Academy of Engineering 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.

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

Automated and Continuous-Flow Platform to Analyze Semiconductor–Metal Complex Hybrid Systems for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction
CD Sahm, GM Ucoski, S Roy, E Reisner
– ACS Catalysis
(2021)
11,
11266
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.1c02921)
Bespoke Biomolecular Wires for Transmembrane Electron Transfer: Spontaneous Assembly of a Functionalized Multiheme Electron Conduit.
SEH Piper, MJ Edwards, JH van Wonderen, C Casadevall, A Martel, LJC Jeuken, E Reisner, TA Clarke, JN Butt
– Front Microbiol
(2021)
12,
714508
(doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.714508)
Conversion of Polyethylene Waste into Gaseous Hydrocarbons via Integrated Tandem Chemical-Photo/Electrocatalytic Processes.
CM Pichler, S Bhattacharjee, M Rahaman, T Uekert, E Reisner
– ACS catalysis
(2021)
11,
9159
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.1c02133)
Understanding the Local Chemical Environment of Bioelectrocatalysis
E Edwardes Moore, S Cobb, AM Coito, AR Oliveira, I Pereira, E Reisner
(2021)
(doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-vnk07)
Imidazolium-modification enhances photocatalytic CO 2 reduction on ZnSe quantum dots
CD Sahm, E Mates-Torres, N Eliasson, K Sokołowski, A Wagner, KE Dalle, Z Huang, OA Scherman, L Hammarström, M García-Melchor, E Reisner
– Chem Sci
(2021)
12,
9078
(doi: 10.1039/d1sc01310f)
Water‐Assisted Growth: Bifunctional Perovskite‐BiVO4 Tandem Devices for Uninterrupted Solar and Electrocatalytic Water Splitting Cycles (Adv. Funct. Mater. 15/2021)
C Pornrungroj, V Andrei, M Rahaman, C Uswachoke, HJ Joyce, DS Wright, E Reisner
– Advanced Functional Materials
(2021)
31,
2170104
(doi: 10.1002/adfm.202170104)
Visible-Light Promoted C-O Bond Formation with an Integrated Carbon Nitride-Nickel Heterogeneous Photocatalyst
A Vijeta, C Casadevall, S Roy, E Reisner
– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2021)
60,
8494
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202016511)
Visible-Light Promoted C-O Bond Formation with an Integrated Carbon Nitride-Nickel Heterogeneous Photocatalyst.
A Vijeta, C Casadevall, S Roy, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie
(2021)
133,
8575
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202016511)
Mechanistic study of an immobilized molecular electrocatalyst by in situ gap-plasmon-assisted spectro-electrochemistry
D Wright, Q Lin, D Berta, T Földes, A Wagner, J Griffiths, C Readman, E Rosta, E Reisner, JJ Baumberg
– Nature Catalysis
(2021)
4,
157
(doi: 10.1038/s41929-020-00566-x)
Electrocatalytic and Solar-Driven Reduction of Aqueous CO2 with Molecular Cobalt Phthalocyanine–Metal Oxide Hybrid Materials
S Roy, M Miller, J Warnan, JJ Leung, CD Sahm, E Reisner
– ACS Catalysis
(2021)
11,
1868
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.0c04744)
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er376@cam.ac.uk

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