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

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 by Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-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)

Author Correction: Advancing photosystem II photoelectrochemistry for semi-artificial photosynthesis

JZ Zhang, E Reisner

Nature Reviews Chemistry

(2020)

4

381

(doi: 10.1038/s41570-020-0193-0)

Photoreforming of food waste into value-added products over visible-light-absorbing catalysts

T Uekert, F Dorchies, CM Pichler, E Reisner

Green Chemistry

(2020)

22

3262

(doi: 10.1039/d0gc01240h)

A One-Pot Route to Faceted FePt-Fe₃O₄ Dumbbells: Probing Morphology-Catalytic Activity Effects in O₂ Reduction Catalysis

KJ Jenkinson, A Wagner, N Kornienko, E Reisner, AEH Wheatley

Advanced Functional Materials

(2020)

30

2002633

(doi: 10.1002/adfm.202002633)

Photoreforming of biomass in metal salt hydrate solutions.

CM Pichler, T Uekert, E Reisner

Chemical Communications

(2020)

56

5743

(doi: 10.1039/d0cc01686a)

Disparity of Cytochrome Utilization in Anodic and Cathodic Extracellular Electron Transfer Pathways of Geobacter sulfurreducens Biofilms.

N Heidary, N Kornienko, S Kalathil, X Fang, KH Ly, HF Greer, E Reisner

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2020)

142

5194

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b13077)