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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

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 (Cambridge, England)
(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)
A three-dimensional hybrid electrode with electroactive microbes for efficient electrogenesis and chemical synthesis
X Fang, S Kalathil, G Divitini, Q Wang, E Reisner
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2020)
117,
5074
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913463117)
Visible-Light Flow Reactor Packed with Porous Carbon Nitride for Aerobic Substrate Oxidations
MA Bajada, A Vijeta, A Savateev, G Zhang, D Howe, E Reisner
– ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
(2020)
12,
8176
(doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b19718)
Selective CO production from aqueous CO 2 using a Cu 96 In 4 catalyst and its integration into a bias-free solar perovskite–BiVO 4 tandem device
M Rahaman, V Andrei, C Pornrungroj, D Wright, JJ Baumberg, E Reisner
– Energy & Environmental Science
(2020)
13,
3536
(doi: 10.1039/d0ee01279c)
Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation Coupled to Pollutant Utilisation Using Carbon Dots Produced from Biomass
DS Achilleos, H Kasap, E Reisner
– Green Chemistry
(2020)
22,
2831
(doi: 10.1039/d0gc00318b)
In-Situ Raman Spectroscopy of Reaction Products in Optofluidic Hollow-Core Fiber Microreactors
AS Gentleman, E Miele, T Lawson, P Köhler, S Kim, S Yousaf, DA García, A Lage, CP Grey, JJ Baumberg, MH Frosz, PSJ Russell, E Reisner, TG Euser
– 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO PR 2020)
(2020)
00,
C2H_2
(doi: 10.1364/CLEOPR.2020.C2H_2)
Advancing photosystem II photoelectrochemistry for semi-artificial photosynthesis
JZ Zhang, E Reisner
– Nature Reviews Chemistry
(2019)
4,
6
(doi: 10.1038/s41570-019-0149-4)
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er376@cam.ac.uk

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