RAE 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

Photocatalytic Formic Acid Conversion on CdS Nanocrystals with Controllable Selectivity for H₂ or CO

MF Kuehnel, DW Wakerley, KL Orchard, E Reisner

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

(2015)

54

9627

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201502773)

Carbon nitride-TiO₂ hybrid modified with hydrogenase for visible light driven hydrogen production.

CA Caputo, L Wang, R Beranek, E Reisner

Chemical science

(2015)

6

5690

(doi: 10.1039/c5sc02017d)

Wiring of Photosystem II to Hydrogenase for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting.

D Mersch, C-Y Lee, JZ Zhang, K Brinkert, JC Fontecilla-Camps, AW Rutherford, E Reisner

J Am Chem Soc

(2015)

137

8541

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b03737)

Unravelling the pH-dependence of a molecular photocatalytic system for hydrogen production.

A Reynal, E Pastor, MA Gross, S Selim, E Reisner, JR Durrant

Chem Sci

(2015)

6

4855

(doi: 10.1039/c5sc01349f)

Synthetic active site model of the [NiFeSe] hydrogenase

C Wombwell, E Reisner

Chemistry A European Journal

(2015)

21

8096

(doi: 10.1002/chem.201500311)

Solar hydrogen production using carbon quantum dots and a molecular nickel catalyst.

BCM Martindale, GAM Hutton, CA Caputo, E Reisner

J Am Chem Soc

(2015)

137

6018

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b01650)

A decaheme cytochrome as a molecular electron conduit in dye-sensitized photoanodes

ET Hwang, K Sheikh, KL Orchard, D Hojo, V Radu, CY Lee, E Ainsworth, C Lockwood, MA Gross, T Adschiri, E Reisner, JN Butt, LJC Jeuken

Advanced Functional Materials

(2015)

25

2308

(doi: 10.1002/adfm.201404541)

Synthetic Active Site Model of the [NiFeSe] Hydrogenase.

C Wombwell, E Reisner

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

(2015)

21

8096

(doi: 10.1002/chem.201500311)

Correction to “Reversible Interconversion of CO₂ and Formate by a Molybdenum-Containing Formate Dehydrogenase”

A Bassegoda, C Madden, DW Wakerley, E Reisner, J Hirst

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2015)

137

4592

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b01967)

A Decaheme Cytochrome as a Molecular Electron Conduit in Dye-Sensitized Photoanodes.

ET Hwang, K Sheikh, KL Orchard, D Hojo, V Radu, C-Y Lee, E Ainsworth, C Lockwood, MA Gross, T Adschiri, E Reisner, JN Butt, LJC Jeuken

Adv Funct Mater

(2015)

25

2308

(doi: 10.1002/adfm.201404541)