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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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Plastic: The new fantastic

Mimicking nature to create a green fuel

Professor Reisner discusses his research

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Publications

Roadmap towards solar fuel synthesis at the water interface of liposome membranes
A Pannwitz, DM Klein, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, C Casadevall, H Song, E Reisner, L Hammarström, S Bonnet
– Chemical Society Reviews
(2021)
50,
4833
(doi: 10.1039/d0cs00737d)
Bifunctional Perovskite-BiVO4 Tandem Devices for Uninterrupted Solar and Electrocatalytic Water Splitting Cycles
C Pornrungroj, V Andrei, M Rahaman, C Uswachoke, HJ Joyce, DS Wright, E Reisner
– Advanced Functional Materials
(2020)
31,
2008182
(doi: 10.1002/adfm.202008182)
Optofluidic Photonic Crystal Fiber Microreactors for In Situ Studies of Carbon Nanodot-Driven Photoreduction.
P Koehler, T Lawson, J Neises, J Willkomm, BCM Martindale, GAM Hutton, D Antón-García, A Lage, AS Gentleman, MH Frosz, PSJ Russell, E Reisner, TG Euser
– Anal Chem
(2020)
93,
895
(doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03546)
Solar-driven reforming of solid waste for a sustainable future
T Uekert, CM Pichler, T Schubert, E Reisner
– Nature Sustainability
(2020)
4,
383
(doi: 10.1038/s41893-020-00650-x)
Scalable Photocatalyst Panels for Photoreforming of Plastic, Biomass and Mixed Waste in Flow
T Uekert, MA Bajada, T Schubert, CM Pichler, E Reisner
– Chemsuschem
(2020)
14,
4190
(doi: 10.1002/cssc.202002580)
Charge accumulation kinetics in multi-redox molecular catalysts immobilised on TiO2
C Bozal-Ginesta, CA Mesa, A Eisenschmidt, L Francàs, RB Shankar, D Antón-García, J Warnan, J Willkomm, A Reynal, E Reisner, JR Durrant
– Chemical science
(2020)
12,
946
(doi: 10.1039/d0sc04344c)
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 TiO 2 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
– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2020)
59,
18184
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202008217)
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)
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Email address

er376@cam.ac.uk

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