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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

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
(2020)
132,
17496
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202006013)
Synthetic Organic Design for Solar Fuel Systems
J Warnan, E Reisner
– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2020)
59,
17344
(doi: 10.1002/anie.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)
His/Met heme ligation in the PioA outer membrane cytochrome enabling light-driven extracellular electron transfer byRhodopseudomonas palustrisTIE-1
D-B Li, MJ Edwards, AW Blake, SE Newton-Payne, SEH Piper, LP Jenner, KP Sokol, E Reisner, JH Van Wonderen, TA Clarke, JN Butt
– Nanotechnology
(2020)
31,
354002
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab92c7)
Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion.
X Fang, S Kalathil, E Reisner
– Chem Soc Rev
(2020)
49,
4926
(doi: 10.1039/c9cs00496c)
A Precious‐Metal‐Free Hybrid Electrolyzer for Alcohol Oxidation Coupled to CO2‐to‐Syngas Conversion
MA Bajada, S Roy, J Warnan, K Abdiaziz, A Wagner, MM Roessler, E Reisner
– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2020)
59,
15633
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202002680)
A Precious‐Metal‐Free Hybrid Electrolyzer for Alcohol Oxidation Coupled to CO2‐to‐Syngas Conversion
MA Bajada, S Roy, J Warnan, K Abdiaziz, A Wagner, MM Roessler, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie
(2020)
132,
15763
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202002680)
Advancing photosystem II photoelectrochemistry for semi-artificial photosynthesis (vol 4, pg 6, 2020)
JZ Zhang, E Reisner
– Nature Reviews Chemistry
(2020)
4,
381
(doi: 10.1038/s41570-020-0193-0)
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Email address

er376@cam.ac.uk

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