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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

A photoelectrochemical-thermoelectric device for semi-artificial CO2 fixation employing full solar spectrum utilization
SJ Cobb, C Pornrungroj, V Andrei, VM Badiani, L Su, RR Manuel, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
– Device
(2024)
2,
100505
(doi: 10.1016/j.device.2024.100505)
Solar Fuel Synthesis Using a Semiartificial Colloidal Z-Scheme.
Y Liu, A Bin Mohamad Annuar, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, CWS Yeung, Q Wang, AM Coito, RR Manuel, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
– J Am Chem Soc
(2024)
146,
29865
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c11827)
Adapting Gas Fermenting Bacteria for Light-driven Domino Valorization of CO2
L Su, S Rodriguez Jimenez, M Short, E Reisner
(2024)
(doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-hw6dn)
Solar-Driven Methanogenesis through Microbial Ecosystem Engineering on Carbon Nitride.
S Kalathil, M Rahaman, E Lam, TL Augustin, HF Greer, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie International Edition
(2024)
63,
e202409192
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202409192)
Influence of Electron Donors on the Charge Transfer Dynamics of Carbon Nanodots in Photocatalytic Systems
S Macpherson, T Lawson, A Abfalterer, P Andrich, A Lage, E Reisner, TG Euser, SD Stranks, AS Gentleman
– ACS Catal
(2024)
14,
12006
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.4c02327)
Organic Semiconductor‐BiVO4 Tandem Devices for Solar‐Driven H2O and CO2 Splitting
CWS Yeung, V Andrei, TH Lee, JR Durrant, E Reisner
– Adv Mater
(2024)
36,
e2404110
(doi: 10.1002/adma.202404110)
Engineering of bespoke photosensitiser-microbe interfaces for enhanced semi-artificial photosynthesis.
IL Bishara Robertson, H Zhang, E Reisner, JN Butt, LJC Jeuken
– Chemical science
(2024)
15,
9893
(doi: 10.1039/d4sc00864b)
Multi-Variable Multi-Metric Optimization of Self-Assembled Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Performance using Machine Learning Algorithms
SA Bonke, G Trezza, L Bergamasco, H Song, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, L Hammarström, E Chiavazzo, E Reisner
– J Am Chem Soc
(2024)
146,
15648
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c01305)
Publisher Correction: High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu2O photoelectrodes
L Pan, L Dai, OJ Burton, L Chen, V Andrei, Y Zhang, D Ren, J Cheng, L Wu, K Frohna, A Abfalterer, TC-J Yang, W Niu, M Xia, S Hofmann, PJ Dyson, E Reisner, H Sirringhaus, J Luo, A Hagfeldt, M Grätzel, SD Stranks
– Nature
(2024)
629,
e14
(doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07489-8)
High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu2O photoelectrodes
L Pan, L Dai, OJ Burton, L Chen, V Andrei, Y Zhang, D Ren, J Cheng, L Wu, K Frohna, A Abfalterer, TC-J Yang, W Niu, M Xia, S Hofmann, PJ Dyson, E Reisner, H Sirringhaus, J Luo, A Hagfeldt, M Grätzel, SD Stranks
– Nature
(2024)
628,
765
(doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07273-8)
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