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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

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

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

– Chem Sci

(2016)

7,

4024

(doi: 10.1039/c5sc04863j)

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

(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)

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)

Ligand removal from CdS quantum dots for enhanced photocatalytic H2 generation in pH neutral water

C Chang, K Orchard, B Martindale, E Reisner

– ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

(2016)

251,

(link to publication)

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 and 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)

Bi-Functional Iron-Only Electrodes for Efficient Water Splitting with Enhanced Stability through In Situ Electrochemical Regeneration

BCM Martindale, E Reisner

– Advanced Energy Materials

(2015)

6,

1502095

(doi: 10.1002/aenm.201502095)

Multifunctional Coatings from Scalable Single Source Precursor Chemistry in Tandem Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

YH Lai, DW Palm, E Reisner

– Advanced Energy Materials

(2015)

5,

1501668

(doi: 10.1002/aenm.201501668)

[NiFeSe]-hydrogenase chemistry.

C Wombwell, CA Caputo, E Reisner

– Accounts of Chemical Research

(2015)

48,

2858

(doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00326)