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Professor Erwin Reisner

RAE Chair in Emerging Technologies

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

Towards molecular understanding of local chemical environment effects in electro- and photocatalytic CO2 reduction
A Wagner, CD Sahm, E Reisner
– Nature Catalysis
(2020)
3,
775
(doi: 10.1038/s41929-020-00512-x)
A diketopyrrolopyrrole dye-based dyad on a porous TiO2 photoanode for solar-driven water oxidation
D Antón-García, J Warnan, E Reisner
– Chemical Science
(2020)
11,
12769
(doi: 10.1039/d0sc04509h)
Solar Reforming of Biomass with Homogeneous Carbon Dots
DS Achilleos, W Yang, H Kasap, A Savateev, Y Markushyna, JR Durrant, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie
(2020)
132,
18341
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202008217)
Solar Reforming of Biomass with Homogeneous Carbon Dots
DS Achilleos, W Yang, H Kasap, A Savateev, Y Markushyna, JR Durrant, E Reisner
– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2020)
59,
18184
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202008217)
Molecularly engineered photocatalyst sheet for scalable solar formate production from carbon dioxide and water
Q Wang, J Warnan, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, JJ Leung, S Kalathil, V Andrei, K Domen, E Reisner
– Nature Energy
(2020)
5,
703
(doi: 10.1038/s41560-020-0678-6)
Synthetic Organic Design for Solar Fuel Systems.
J Warnan, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie International Edition
(2020)
59,
17344
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202006013)
Synthetic Organic Design for Solar Fuel Systems
J Warnan, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie
(2020)
132,
17496
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202006013)
Stimulus-Mediated Ultrastable Radical Formation
JA McCune, MF Kuehnel, E Reisner, OA Scherman
– Chem
(2020)
6,
1819
(doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2020.05.005)
Understanding How the Rate of C-H Bond Cleavage Affects Formate Oxidation Catalysis by a Mo-Dependent Formate Dehydrogenase.
WE Robinson, A Bassegoda, JN Blaza, E Reisner, J Hirst
– J Am Chem Soc
(2020)
142,
12226
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c03574)
Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion
X Fang, S Kalathil, E Reisner
– Chemical Society reviews
(2020)
49,
4926
(doi: 10.1039/c9cs00496c)
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er376@cam.ac.uk

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