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

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 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 (International ed. in English)

(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)

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 ed. in English)

(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)

Stimuli Mediated Ultrastable Radical Formation

JA McCune, MF Kuehnel, E Reisner, OA Scherman

Chem

(2020)

6

1819

(doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2020.05.005)