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

ZnSe Nanorods as Visible‐Light Absorbers for Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical H2 Evolution in Water

MF Kuehnel, CE Creissen, CD Sahm, D Wielend, A Schlosser, KL Orchard, E Reisner

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

(2019)

58

5059

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201814265)

Interfacing Formate Dehydrogenase with Metal Oxides for the Reversible Electrocatalysis and Solar-Driven Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

M Miller, WE Robinson, AR Oliveira, N Heidary, N Kornienko, J Warnan, IAC Pereira, E Reisner

Advanced Materials

(2019)

131

4649

(doi: 10.1002/ANGE.201814419)

Electro- and Solar-driven Fuel Synthesis with First Row Transition Metal Complexes

KE Dalle, J Warnan, JJ Leung, B Reuillard, IS Karmel, E Reisner

Chemical Reviews

(2019)

119

2752

(doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00392)

When Does Organic Photoredox Catalysis Meet Artificial Photosynthesis?

E Reisner

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

(2019)

58

3656

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201814692)

Structure–Activity Relationships of Hierarchical Three-Dimensional Electrodes with Photosystem II for Semiartificial Photosynthesis

E Reisner, X Fang, KP Sokol, N Heidary, TA Kandiel, JZ Zhang

Nano Letters

(2019)

19

1844

(doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04935)

Protein film electrochemical EPR spectroscopy as a technique to investigate redox reactions in biomolecules

K Abdiaziz, E Salvadori, KP Sokol, E Reisner, MM Roessler

Chem Commun (Camb)

(2019)

55

8840

(doi: 10.1039/c9cc03212f)

Oxygenic Photoreactivity in Photosystem II Studied by Rotating Ring Disk Electrochemistry.

N Kornienko, JZ Zhang, KP Sokol, S Lamaison, A Fantuzzi, R van Grondelle, AW Rutherford, E Reisner

J Am Chem Soc

(2018)

140

17923

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b08784)

Solar Electricity and Fuel Production with Perylene Monoimide Dye-Sensitised TiO2 in Water

J Warnan, J Willkomm, Y Farré, Y Pellegrin, M Boujtita, F Odobel, E Reisner

Chem Sci

(2018)

10

2758

(doi: 10.1039/C8SC05693E)

La₅ Ti₂ Cu_0.9 Ag_0.1 S₅ O₇ Modified with a Molecular Ni Catalyst for Photoelectrochemical H₂ Generation.

TE Rosser, T Hisatomi, S Sun, D Antón-García, T Minegishi, E Reisner, K Domen

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

(2018)

24

18393

(doi: 10.1002/chem.201801169)

Aerobic Conditions Enhance the Photocatalytic Stability of CdS/CdO

E Reisner, D Wakerley, K Ly, N Kornienko, K Orchard, M Kuehnel

Chemistry A European Journal

(2018)

24

18385

(doi: 10.1002/chem.201802353)