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Professor Erwin Reisner

RAE Chair in Emerging Technologies

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

Solar-driven reforming of lignocellulose to H$_{2}$ with a CdS/CdO$_{x}$ photocatalyst
DW Wakerley, MF Kuehnel, KL Orchard, KH Ly, TE Rosser, E Reisner
– Nature Energy
(2017)
2,
17021
(doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2017.21)
High Performance Reduction of H2O2 with an Electron Transport Decaheme Cytochrome on a Porous ITO Electrode
E Reisner, B Reuillard, K Ly, P Hildebrandt, LJC Jeuken, JN Butt
– J Am Chem Soc
(2017)
139,
3324
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b12437)
Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy Reveals a Mechanism with TiO2 as a Reversible Electron Acceptor in a TiO2–Re Catalyst System for CO2 Photoreduction
M Abdellah, AM El-Zohry, LJ Antila, CD Windle, E Reisner, L Hammarström
– J Am Chem Soc
(2017)
139,
1226
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b11306)
Dark Photocatalysis: Storage of Solar Energy in Carbon Nitride for Time-Delayed Hydrogen Generation.
VW-H Lau, D Klose, H Kasap, F Podjaski, M-C Pignié, E Reisner, G Jeschke, BV Lotsch
– Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
(2017)
56,
510
(doi: 10.1002/anie.201608553)
Expanding the scope of in situ techniques to probe amorphous electrocatalysts
N Kornienko, P Yang, E Reisner
– ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2017)
254,
(link to publication)
Enhancing Light Absorption and Charge Transfer Efficiency in Carbon Dots through Graphitization and Core Nitrogen Doping.
E Reisner, B Martindale, G Hutton, C Caputo, S Prantl, R Godin, J Durrant
– Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
(2017)
56,
6459
(doi: 10.1002/anie.201700949)
Quantitatively probing photosystem II with a rotating ring disk electrode assembly
N Kornienko, R van Grondelle, AW Rutherford, E Reisner
– ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2017)
254,
(link to publication)
Carbon Dots as Versatile Photosensitizers for Solar-Driven Catalysis with Redox Enzymes
GAM Hutton, B Reuillard, BCM Martindale, CA Caputo, CWJ Lockwood, JN Butt, E Reisner
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2016)
138,
16722
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b10146)
Competing charge transfer pathways at the photosystem II-electrode interface.
JZ Zhang, KP Sokol, N Paul, E Romero, R van Grondelle, E Reisner
– Nature Chemical Biology
(2016)
12,
1046
(doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2192)
Photoreduction of $\textit{Shewanella oneidensis}$ Extracellular Cytochromes by Organic Chromophores and Dye-Sensitized TiO$_2$
EV Ainsworth, CWJ Lockwood, GF White, ET Hwang, T Sakai, MA Gross, DJ Richardson, TA Clarke, LJC Jeuken, E Reisner, JN Butt
– Chembiochem
(2016)
17,
2324
(doi: 10.1002/cbic.201600339)
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er376@cam.ac.uk

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