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

Photoelectrocatalytic H$_2$ evolution in water with molecular catalysts immobilised on p-Si $\textit{via}$ a stabilising mesoporous TiO$_2$ interlayer

E Reisner, J Leung, J Warnan, D Nam, J Zhang, J Willkomm

Chem Sci

(2017)

8

5172

(doi: 10.1039/C7SC01277B)

Selective photocatalytic CO$_2$ reduction in water through anchoring of a molecular Ni catalyst on CdS nanocrystals

E Reisner, M Kuehnel, K Orchard, K Dalle

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2017)

139

7217

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b00369)

Understanding Immobilized Molecular Catalysts for Fuel-Forming Reactions through UV/Vis Spectroelectrochemistry

E Reisner, T Rosser

ACS Catalysis

(2017)

7

3131

(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.7b00326)

Emerging approaches to stabilise photocorrodible electrodes and catalysts for solar fuel applications

M Crespo-Quesada, E Reisner

Energy and Environmental Science

(2017)

10

1116

(doi: 10.1039/c7ee00777a)

Solar H$_2$ evolution in water with modified diketopyrrolopyrrole dyes immobilised on molecular Co and Ni catalyst–TiO$_2$ hybrids

E Reisner, J warnan, J willkomm, J Ng, R godin, S Prantl, J Durrant

Chemical science

(2017)

8

3070

(doi: 10.1039/c6sc05219c)

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 H

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

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2017)

139

1226

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b11308)

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)

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

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

(2017)

56

6459

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201700949)