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

Photoelectrochemical hydrogen production in water using a layer-by-layer assembly of a Ru dye and Ni catalyst on NiO.

MA Gross, CE Creissen, KL Orchard, E Reisner

Chemical science

(2016)

7

5537

(doi: 10.1039/c6sc00715e)

Inside Cover: Electrocatalytic and Solar-Driven CO2Reduction to CO with a Molecular Manganese Catalyst Immobilized on Mesoporous TiO2(Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 26/2016)

TE Rosser, CD Windle, E Reisner

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

(2016)

55

7268

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201603979)

Photoelectrochemical H$_{2}$ Evolution with a Hydrogenase Immobilized on a TiO$_{2}$-Protected Silicon Electrode

C-Y Lee, HS Park, JC Fontecilla-Camps, E Reisner

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

(2016)

55

5971

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201511822)

A Poly(cobaloxime)/Carbon Nanotube Electrode: Freestanding Buckypaper with Polymer-Enhanced H₂-Evolution Performance

B Reuillard, J Warnan, JJ Leung, DW Wakerley, E Reisner

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

(2016)

55

3952

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201511378)

Precious-metal free photoelectrochemical water splitting with immobilised molecular Ni and Fe redox catalysts.

TE Rosser, MA Gross, Y-H Lai, E Reisner

Chemical science

(2016)

7

4024

(doi: 10.1039/c5sc04863j)

Dye-sensitised semiconductors modified with molecular catalysts for light-driven H 2 production

J Willkomm, KL Orchard, A Reynal, E Pastor, JR Durrant, E Reisner

Chemical Society reviews

(2016)

45

9

(doi: 10.1039/c5cs00733j)

Rational wiring of photosystem II to hierarchical indium tin oxide electrodes using redox polymers

KP Sokol, D Mersch, V Hartmann, JZ Zhang, MM Nowaczyk, M Rögner, A Ruff, W Schuhmann, N Plumeré, E Reisner

Energy & Environmental Science

(2016)

9

3698

(doi: 10.1039/c6ee01363e)

Visible light driven hydrogen evolution with a noble metal free CuGa2In3S8 nanoparticle system in water

TA Kandiel, GAM Hutton, E Reisner

Catalysis Science & Technology

(2016)

6

6536

(doi: 10.1039/c6cy01103a)

A decahaem cytochrome as an electron conduit in protein-enzyme redox processes.

C-Y Lee, B Reuillard, KP Sokol, T Laftsoglou, CWJ Lockwood, SF Rowe, ET Hwang, JC Fontecilla-Camps, LJC Jeuken, JN Butt, E Reisner

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

(2016)

52

7390

(doi: 10.1039/c6cc02721k)

Ligand removal from CdS quantum dots for enhanced photocatalytic H₂generation in pH neutral water

CM Chang, KL Orchard, BCM Martindale, E Reisner

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

(2016)

4

2856

(doi: 10.1039/c5ta04136h)